[X2Go-Dev] USB forwarding? (esp. @Alex & @Mike)

[Stefan Baur]

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