Re: Virtualize USB Port Through IBM i

I’ve always just moved the USB resource from the host to the client. Of course I think you need an HMC to do this and it can’t be required anywhere.


Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Aug 24, 2024, at 6:03 PM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Believe it or not I have never tried this.

But the thing is treated as an optical device so I wonder if you could add the device name to the NWSD and share it to a guest? My guess is this won't work but worth a try.

You should be able to share the directory it mounts but that's rather indirect.

- DrF

On 8/23/2024 5:56 PM, Jacob Banda via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
Has anybody ever virtualized the USB port on an IBM i hosting partition to
client partitions?
I see TAPE/OPTICAL just fine through my separate NWSD dedicated for those
devices.
But USB?
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