Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > 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 > >
Thank you! This is a very important feature for me. Will we be able to attach USB devices to different qubes, or is it still only a USBVM that works? And what's the ETA for R3.2? -- 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/niorhd%24ne3%241%40ger.gmane.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
