-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:41:35PM +0000, Albin Otterhaell wrote: > I will first say that I don't know anything about how Xen works, so my > question could be wrong totally wrong. Please correct me! > > According to Xen's wiki[1] "[...] support for PVUSB in xl/libxl is > introduced sinceXen 4.7, including both PVUSB device from config file > and PVUSB device hot-plug and unplug. Currently it supports USB 1.1 and > USB 2.0", does this mean that we'll be able to attach USB devices (other > than block devices, e.g. mobile phones and webcams) to qubes and still > be able to use USB keyboard and mouses?
Yes, but not because of PVUSB support in xl. According to that wiki, only dom0 backend is currently supported. And our previous experience with PVUSB kernel drivers reveals it's really unstable. Alternative they propose is to use backend in qemu process in dom0, which is security disaster. On the other hand, it turned out USBIP to be greatly improved over the time and is quite useable. And it is possible to use it over any socket, not only network, so we've connected it using Qubes RPC[2]. It will be available in upcoming Qubes 3.2. There will be a separate announcement about this major feature. > [1] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_USB_Passthrough [2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/531#issuecomment-199329326 - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXT3KNAAoJENuP0xzK19csOaoH/jOOkuiGcACO73L/2BJd/iQB l0NTetQ0xH5tpWXbiQTyEmJPPci9Ndo/6sckLkN2+NKOq0Knh8kx+VkNwNjOj3Hr UFZa1mDrHrljEEKB8BrvLmmTdiPsIhQBNc/6Fu0IoPySw5pehaVVjyQSOuRz5Rr1 K80EwaailwxHAptCUSNl9nV9C9oM+5dpMAV4eezcVHw83JWFTnfwxZdinQfcBZPc rQfqSb6e3DC0pccKVxN4cIIocs1qIziwypiw49oMVgIRVFJzz1ZQ9dmEl0OQeQ6Z k54jnWNgwp/Xo29SlaiGx7g3+86meUTuKehAw6VrGvvMl/xqYf7HlNCtadVj5wU= =Anr/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20160601234101.GI1593%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
