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From: "Nicolas Ecarnot" <nicolas@ecarnot.net> To: "users" <users@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,

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