Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] libxl: Introduce functions to add and remove USB devices to an HVM guest

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:51 PM, George Dunlap
<george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch exposes a generic interface which can be expanded in the
> future to implement USB for PVUSB, qemu, and stubdoms.  It can also be
> extended to include other types of USB other than host USB (for example,
> tablets, mice, or keyboards).
>
> For each device removed or added, one of two protocols is available:
> * PVUSB
> * qemu (DEVICEMODEL)
>
> The caller can additionally specify "AUTO", in which case the library will
> try to determine the best protocol automatically.
>
> At the moment, the only protocol implemented is DEVICEMODEL, and the only
> device type impelmented is HOSTDEV.
>
> This uses the qmp functionality, and is thus only available for
> qemu-xen, not qemu-traditional.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: sstanisi@xxxxxxxxx

Roger, Ian, any feedback on this?  It would be nice to get this in
this week if possible...

 -George

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