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Date:      Tue, 7 May 2019 08:19:13 -0700
From:      Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox Extensions Pack (for USB and Video)
Message-ID:  <0135d85a-396e-faf6-bd40-4cd42a4373d0@gmail.com>
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Out of curiosity I googled and it seems you might be able to
pass-through the entire USB controller using PCI pass-through. Not sure
it's so practical=C2=A0 if you end up loosing input capability on the hos=
t
(and also the guest since it's VNC)... Would be nice though if bhyve had
all the required functionality so we'd have a more "native" and open
source solution for all VM needs.

On 5/7/19 8:03 AM, Goran Meki=C4=87 wrote:
> As far as I know bhyve doesn't have USB passthroug which I understand
> you're after. It might be false as I didn't check since last year
>
> On 7 May 2019 16:44:45 CEST, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:40 PM Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.co=
m> wrote:
>
>         On 5/7/19 7:26 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>
>             On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:11 PM Johannes Lundberg
>             <johalun0@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 On 5/6/19 12:42 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>
>                     On 2019-05-06 20:49, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>
>                         @HPS have you ever considered such operation?
>                         If the FreeBSD's USB can be shared to the
>                         userland, maybe that could be also shared to
>                         the Virtual Machine?=20
>
>                     Hi, The problem is inside VBOX, that the USB APIs
>                     only support USB 1.x and not in FreeBSD from what
>                     I understand last time I checked. --HPS=20
>
>                 Maybe bhyve is an option? I have completely replaced
>                 virtualbox with bhyve for my vms and loving it but I
>                 haven't tested it with usb yet.=20
>
>             Hmm, thanks Johannes for that hint.. can you run Windoze
>             (yuck), Linux and other stuff as full hypervisor or does
>             this work more like separated dedicated FreeBSD Jail?=20
>
>         I haven't tried Windows but it's supposed to work. I'm running
>         Ubuntu successfully with graphical desktop in bhyve. It uses
>         VNC for the graphical interface so it's not the best
>         experience but it's usable if you don't have too high
>         requirements. Mostly my VMs are headless. Check
>         https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-bhyve.=
html
>         For managing my VMs I like this one
>         https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve=20
>
>
>     Sounds really nice and what I need! More than that we would develop=

>     true Open-Source solution :-)
>
>     Thank you Johannes !! :-)
>
>     Best regards :-)
>     Tomek
>
>
> --=20
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.=20



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