On Friday, January 11, 2008 4:50 AM, "David Loose" wrote: > Hi, > > I recently built a pretty decent machine to use as a home fileserver > and installed SNV 77 on it. Before I had this, I stored all of my > media and backups on a Windows XP machine, but that's getting old and > I'd like to be able to put it out to pasture. The only thing it can > do that my new Solaris box can't is run iTunes to sync music to my > iPod. > > I bought an AMD processor with virtualization support, and from what > I've read, setting up a WinXP DomU should be fairly easy. The one > thing I haven't found much documentation on is whether the XP DomU > will have access to the computer's USB ports. The few relevant pages > Google turned up seemed to suggest that it wouldn't, but they also > seemed fairly old.
Hi David, Present Xen does not support general USB usage in HVM guest. Guest also can not directly access physical devices. AFAIK, the guest USB can only used for mouse emulation (it is for accurate mouse moving, but not for the physcial USB mouse.). > > So how about it? I know this isn't exactly a typical use of > virtualization, but it would definitely make things a little nicer > for me. For your usage model, the possible way to use USB device in Windows HVM domain is by IOMMU supporting, then we can assign some special devices to HVM domain directly. Well, it is just implemented in Xen 3.2 for some machines (need VT-d hardwar supporting). Maybe we still need to wait for a while for wide implementation and xVM to pull in. Best Regards, Yongkang You _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
