Xen users - Feb 2007 - USB passthrough

I was wondering if there are any plans to address USB passthrough with
Xen 3. I have virtualized Windows servers running under Xen on IBM
BladeCenter, and need to assign USB ports to different Windows
instances. The ports have copy protection dongles installed so that a
specific package can be run on each instance of Windows. We have 2
dongles and need to assign one to one instance of Windows, and the other
to another instance. Any ideas on how I can do this?


Robert A. Wicks
Sr. AIX/Linux Systems Administrator 
Rollins Corporation 
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On 2/15/07, Robert A. Wicks <rwicks@rollins.com>
wrote:
>
>  I was wondering if there are any plans to address USB passthrough with Xen
3. I have
> virtualized Windows servers running under Xen on IBM BladeCenter, and need
to assign USB
> ports to different Windows instances. The ports have copy protection
dongles installed so that
> a specific package can be run on each instance of Windows. We have 2
dongles and need to
> assign one to one instance of Windows, and the other to another instance.
> Any ideas on how I can do this?
It is documented in the Xen Manual for HVM, but doesn''t work like
documented, at least for me.
I talked about that on -devel and gonna report a bug today.

Henning

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