On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Chirkut Daruwalla <chirkut.daruwalla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've spent quite a bit of time googling for this but came up with very > little. So I'm hoping someone on this forum can help. > > I'm trying to write an open source application for USB redirection > that will allow users to plug in a USB device into a Linux thinclient > and have it visible on a Linux Xrdp server which may be on a LAN or > WAN. > > On the thinclient side, I plan to use libusb to communicate with the USB device. > > On the xrdp server side, I need to implement some kind of virtual USB > hub that takes USB messages from the thinclient and presents them on > the server in such a way that it appears as if the device was > physically plugged into the server machine. > > How do I write such a virtual USB hub? Is there already some support > for this in the USB core? > > I've written Linux PCI drivers in the past, so I'm ok with writing any > kernel module for this project. Just wondering if you have looked at usbredir and spice. Maybe they will be of some help to you. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/usbredir/tree/usb-redirection-protocol.txt http://spice-space.org/page/UsbRedir -- Xiaofan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
