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Christian Prochaska
88034ef836 vbox: enable USB (OHCI) pass-through support
The information about connected devices is obtained from a ROM file named
'usb_devices', which is supposed to contain a device list as in the device
report generated by the USB driver (see issue #1506).

A policy for 'report_rom' would look like:

<policy label="vbox -> usb_devices" report="usb_drv -> devices"/>

If the 'usb_devices' ROM file is not available, a warning message gets
printed and VirtualBox continues without USB pass-through support.

The devices to be passed-through need to have a matching device filter in
the '.vbox' file. Example:

<USB>
    <DeviceFilters>
        <DeviceFilter name="USB Scanner" active="true" vendorId="04a9"
                      productId="2220" remote="0"/>
    </DeviceFilters>
</USB>

The feature was tested with HID devices (mouse, keyboard) and a flatbed
scanner. Mass storage devices didn't work correctly (they also didn't work
with VirtualBox on Linux without the closed-source extension pack).

It should be made sure that the USB driver does not try to control the
devices to be passed-through itself, for example, when passing-through
a HID device, the '<hid/>' config option should not be set.

Fixes #1507
2015-05-26 09:39:46 +02:00