Re: [usbip-devel] usbip for windows not working

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Benjamin DeCamp
> <ben...@gm...> wrote:
>> An area where it "may" be continuing is related to the "freerdp" project
>> seeking to duplicate the RDP protocol on linux/unix.
>>
>> RDP protocol now has USB redirection built in. So a Linux compatible
>> implementation of RDP may provide what we need related to sharing USB
>> devices across the network and across OS's.
>
>
> Does Spice project fit the gap as well?
>       http://www.spice-space.org/features.html
>       http://www.spice-space.org/download.html
>
> They have also developed UsbDk for usb redireaction.
>       http://www.spice-space.org/page/UsbRedir

Under Windows UsbRedir uses libusb Windows backend
(which mainly support WinUSB driver, but also libusbK
driver as well). Now Redhat have submitted patches
to libusb project to include UsbDk support as well.
   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/win32/usbdk/tree/ARCHITECTURE

> RedHat does seem to have have good Windows driver development
> capability.


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Xiaofan