Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.3 development update

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:26:45AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 05:25:43PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> >>
> >> * xl USB pass-through for PV guests
> >>   owner: ?
> >>   status: ?
> >>   - Port the xend PV pass-through functionality to xl.
> >>   - Make sure qemu-based USB with qemu-upstream works
> >>   - Upstream the Linux frontend/backend drivers
> >>
> >
> > I think this should be split into two separate tasks:
> 
> That does make sense.  I've updated my notes accordingly.
> 

Thanks.

> Just to verify: xm/xend *already* supports both PVUSB and passthrough via 
> QEMU?
>

Correct!

-- Pasi

 
>  -George
> 
> >
> >  * xl PVUSB pass-through for both PV and HVM guests
> >    owner: ?
> >    status: ?
> >    - xm/xend supports PVUSB pass-through to guests with PVUSB drivers (both 
> > PV and HVM guests).
> >    - port the xm/xend functionality to xl.
> >    - this PVUSB feature does not require support or emulation from Qemu.
> >    - upstream the Linux frontend/backend drivers. Current work-in-progress 
> > versions are in Konrad's git tree.
> >    - James Harper's GPLPV drivers for Windows include PVUSB frontend 
> > drivers.
> >
> >  * xl USB pass-through for HVM guests using Qemu USB emulation
> >    owner: ?
> >    status: ?
> >    - xm/xend with qemu-traditional supports USB passthrough to HVM guests 
> > using the Qemu emulated USB controller.
> >    - port the xm/xend functionality to xl.
> >    - make sure USB passthrough with xl works with both qemu-traditional and 
> > qemu-upstream.
> >    - The HVM guest does not need any special drivers for this feature.
> >
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> >
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