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usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection


he name of a network protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection. It is also the name of the software package offering a parsing library, a usbredirhost library and several utilities implementing this protocol.

usbredir was created for use with Spice, which is why it is hosted on spice-space.org, but the protocol and the usbredirhost are completely independent of spice, they could for example also be used to create a vnc extension for redirecting USB devices over a vnc connection to a qemu virtual machine. The following libvirt XML will configure a guest with USB2 support and the ability to redirect 3 devices simultaneously: The following qemu options will configure a guest with USB2 support and the ability to redirect 3 devices simultaneously

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