On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:48:15PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:18:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 05:21:03PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > Topic 1 > > > ------- > > > > > > The KVM folks suggested that it would be good to get USB and > > > virtualization developers together to talk about how to virtualize the > > > xHCI host controller. The xHCI spec architect worked closely with > > > VMWare to get some extra goodies in the spec to help virtualization, and > > > I'd like to see the other virtualization developers take advantage of > > > that. I'd also like us to hash out any issues they have been finding in > > > the USB core or xHCI driver during the virtualization effort. > > > > Do people really want to virtualize the whole xHCI controller, or just > > specific ports or devices to the guest operating system? > > A host OS could chose to virtualize the whole xHCI controller if it > wanted to. That's part of the reason why xHCI does all the bandwidth > checking in hardware, not in software. And here I thought it did that so it would be "correct" :) > > > If just specific ports, would something like usbip be better for virtual > > machines, with the USB traffic going over the network connection between > > the guest/host? > > It could be done that way too. But that doesn't help if you're trying > to run Windows under Linux, right? Only if all the guest OSes use the > same USB IP protocol then it would work. usbip works on Windows as well as Linux. But how could you run Windows with a xHCI controller in a guest, as Windows has no xHCI driver? What would it expect to see? > > > Hope to see you there! > > > > Thanks for putting this together. > > > > Do we need to sign up somewhere to give the organizers a sense of how > > many people will be attending? > > I private ack by email would be great. Or you can ack by facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=229532200405657 I could add the > event in upcoming.yahoo.com if anyone uses that. Nice try, but I'm still not going to join facebook... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
