[virt-tools-list] USB redirection in virt-manager console viewer

[Guannan Ren]

On 06/19/2013 08:03 PM, Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am interested in having USB redirection working through spice in 
> virt-manager console viewer, just as we have in virt-viewer today.
>
> Anyone ever touched this? Is this something that should be accepted by 
> the virt-tools community? Any pointers on how this should be 
> implemented? I know almost nothing about spice protocol right now and 
> I was not able to figure out much from the virt-viewer code (seems 
> that most part is implemented in spice-gtk).
>
> BTW, I was wondering: it seems that virt-viewer and virt-manager 
> console viewer shares lots of features, although they have a 
> completely different code base. Any thoughts on making them share the 
> same application with different python wrapper scripts? I know this is 
> a big change for virt-viewer, as it is not written in python, but I 
> was wondering about what virt-viewer has today that is not available 
> in the virt-manager console viewer and couldn't think of much 
> (probably by lack of experience from my part).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Leonardo Garcia

     I finished the draft version of USB redirection feature in 
virt-manager. This feature is in my to-do list for a long time.
     I didn't check email in time before doing it, sorry about this.

     You can help review it if you have same interest on it :)

     Guannan