[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 1/2] Add a menu entry for USB device selection

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 13:33:05 UTC 2012


Hi,

On 02/06/2012 02:45 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

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> With this done, I successfully (but accidentally) redirected my local
> keyboard device to the guest.
>
> I guess we need to produce some better text descriptions of each
> device. 'lsusb' seems to be giving me better descriptions than
> the ones virt-viewer does, so the info must be there somewhere.
>
> Regardless, I have pushed these two patches

Thanks,

lsusb is getting its info from the usb.ids file, where as
spice-gtk is getting the info from the device itself using
the so called string descriptors. Unfortunately not all devices
bother with string descriptors, in which case spice-gtk says
just "USB Device". To remedy this I've just send 3 patches to
the spice-devel list to add support for parsing usb.ids,
and using the info from there if the device does not want to
tell us what it is.

Regards,

Hans




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