usbip to share USB devices

[mviereck]

Coming from #251

@eine wrote:

Support for external Hardware (USB Sticks) is difficult. Compare ticket #245.

As an alternative, USBIP is a kernel module. I have successfully used it on Docker Desktop for Windows, in order to share arbitrary USB devices. Unfortunately, I found no open source client for Windows. See https://github.com/ghdl/docker/tree/master/usbip#readme

[mviereck]

A very interesting hint, thank you!
Debian provides a package usbip, I'll try it out.

[Intensity]

@mviereck : It looks like https://www.virtualhere.com/ wraps the functionality of USB forwarding while on Linux still using the standard usbip modules. The following may be a helpful reference: https://github.com/hdl/containers/blob/main/usbip/run.sh

[mviereck]

Thank you for the hint!
But virtualhere seems to be closed source and commercial software, so x11docker won't use it.

[mviereck]

I am not sure if I will ever implement this because I did not since, and no urgent need appeared meanwhile.
For now I'll close the ticket, but keep the possibility in mind.