[Users] USB dongle (sigh...)

Nicolas Ecarnot nicolas at ecarnot.net
Mon Feb 18 13:53:02 UTC 2013


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...)

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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