Re: [Xen-users] Status of USB in xl toolstack

[Shane Johnson <sdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian and George.

Thank you for your responses.

Yes that does provide options for the next time it comes up.  I will hold on to this for the next time it comes up.

Sincerely.

Shane

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:15 AM, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/08/2014 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 10:11 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:

On 04/08/2014 09:31 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:

I don't know what George plans and you've dropped the CC so he is
unlikely to see the question. I've put it back and left the quotes
untrimmed.

I don't believe you need to reboot the host to use PCI passthrough, in
most cases you can dynamically rebind. There are helpers in xl to do
this, or you can poke at sysfs directly.

I think it would be unlikely that rebooting the host would be necessary
for USB passthrough.

So there are several ways to get your USB device to your guest:
1. PCI pass-through of the host USB controller
2. passing through a host USB device via qemu emulation
3. passing through a host USB device via PVUSB

#1 is available and pretty well understood.  It has never required
booting your host -- you could always dynamically assign a device to
pciback after you've booted.  Before 4.2 this required a bunch of manual
frobbing about in sysfs; since 4.2 there are some convenient xl commands
to do so.  See the wiki page here:

http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_PCI_Passthrough

In #2, qemu emulates the USB controller, but passes the USB commands
through to the host device.  This has been available as a static
configuration for a long time; as of at least 4.3 you could pass in
arbitrary numbers of devices.  Depending on your USB device, if you do
#2 you may need to set the "usbversion" in your config file as well.

There is no way to do USB "hot-plug" for this mode yet -- I have a patch
series that's functional, but still needs to be tweaked to get the
interface right.

In #3, usbback passes the USB commands through to the host device.  This
requires pcifront in your guest and pciback in your domU and dom0

ITYM usbfront and usbback here.

Indeed I do...

 -George

--
Shane D. Johnson

IT Administrator

Rasmussen Equipment

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