[Users] USB dongle (sigh...)

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Ecarnot" <nicolas at ecarnot.net>
> To: "users" <users at 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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