Re: [Qemu-devel] USB support

[Paul Brook]

> > - Linux host USB redirector to use the USB 1.1 host devices which are
> > not requested by the host OS (i.e. no host driver is loaded for them).
> > It is *very* limited and buggy at the moment, but I was able (once !) to
> > mount a disk-on-key flash device.
>
> Had you thought of adding a minimal kernel module to allow "stealing" of
> host drivers for use by QEmu?  When I looked into this, I had the
> impression that the 2.6 USB code ought to be able to support it, although
> I'm not sure how it would interact with the userspace driver layer in your
> case.

Someone else already pointed out there's a usbdevfs ioctl for this.

Paul