From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V2 0/5] pvusb toolstack work Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:07:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20150128160713.GK5962@reaktio.net> References: <1421656131-19366-1-git-send-email-cyliu@suse.com> <1422460263.5187.27.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1422460263.5187.27.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: lars.kurth@citrix.com, george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, Chunyan Liu , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, ian.jackson@citrix.com, caobosimon@gmail.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 03:51:03PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 16:28 +0800, Chunyan Liu wrote: > > This patch series is based on Simon's work. Since there is no progress > > after last August, I hope we can make this work proceed. Any comment will > > be very appreciated. > > > > It adds pvusb toolstack implementation, with pvusb kernel side work, > > one could attach/detach a usb device to guest. > > By any chance do you (or anyone else) have a link handy to the design > discussions for this stuff around the start of last year? > > In particular I'm hoping for some reminder on what the > libxl_usbctrl_type / libxl_usb_type options mean. > George probably knows/remembers the best.. > Although this is PV USB only I think the intention was to leave a > suitable hole for HVM emulated USB support. Or am I mis-remembering? > PVUSB should work with both PV and HVM guests, as long as the required PV drivers are in the domU kernel. -- Pasi