Re: [Users] USB dongle (sigh...)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolas Ecarnot" <nicolas(a)ecarnot.net>
To: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 8:53:02 AM
Subject: [Users] USB dongle (sigh...)
Hi,
A user of mine is trying to ruin oVirt's reputation by asking me how
will I handle the USB dongle issue.
I found nothing like USB passthrough drivers, and I don't intend to
use
such a bad solution.
Is there anyone here who faced such a request?
I saw http://www.dongleservice.com/ and
http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb, but I was wondering if
anything lighter would exist (based on some dd
if=/dev/goodOldLinuxTrickWeLove things...)
a gongle is an active device, not a passivce storage device so that won't work.
You'll need to use usb redirection into the guest.
Two ways of doing that - you can configure native USB support with spice and pass through
the dongle from your machine to the VM or you can use a hook[1] to pass the dongle from
the host itself to the VM
[1] http://wiki.ovirt.org/VDSM-Hooks/hostusb
The VM is a XP or 2003, and I already tried dd /dev/myUsbDevice
of=dongle.iso, then mount it in the VM with daemon tool. The iso is
mounting, but the content does not appear. Anyway, I'm not sure at
all
this will be enough emulation to convince the doubtful software
*this*
is its dongle.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Ecarnot
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