It's probably just a matter of just adding yet another tunnel: http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

Cheers Morty

On 2012-05-16 12:21, Stefan Baur wrote:

Hi Devs (esp. Alex and Mike),

this topic has popped up before, but it seems no one is really tackling this (or did I just miss the relevant posts?):

Forwarding of USB devices from the guest to the host.

Our commercial competitors offer solutions to forward, say, a USB card reader to the host, so digital signatures can be performed on a (windows) terminal server.

How hard would it be to add this feature to X2Go (especially when working with a Windows client)? Is it a difficult task, or simply a matter of "nobody got around to coding this yet"?

-Stefan

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Am 16.05.2012 12:21, schrieb Stefan Baur:

Hi Devs (esp. Alex and Mike),

this topic has popped up before, but it seems no one is really tackling this (or did I just miss the relevant posts?):

Forwarding of USB devices from the guest to the host.

Our commercial competitors offer solutions to forward, say, a USB card reader to the host, so digital signatures can be performed on a (windows) terminal server.

How hard would it be to add this feature to X2Go (especially when working with a Windows client)? Is it a difficult task, or simply a matter of "nobody got around to coding this yet"?

For anyone else also interested in this issue, there seems to be a free-as-in-beer, but not free-as-in-speech solution here: http://www.usb-server.com/usb-server.html

I have not checked how well it works and what side-effects it may have. Judging from the description, it requires kernel modules that need to be complied manually, and judging from my experience with other closed-source software providing kernel modules, this will probably mark the kernel as tainted.

-Stefan