Bug#678731: linux-2.6: Please build dummy_hcd and g_mass_storage modules

[intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>]

Hi Ben,

Ben Hutchings wrote (24 Jun 2012 22:12:00 GMT) :
> Couldn't you also use usbip for this?

Thank you for mentionning usbip, I did not know about it!
After a quick look at it, I must say I'm happy to learn about it, and
I may use it for unrelated tasks, but it does not really seem to be
fit for the Live USB system autotesting usecase.

E.g. it looks like it's not easily possible to boot a VM from a USB
stick shared with the VM using usbip, is it? (I've successfully booted
a VM using libvirt/qemu-kvm's USB 2.0 passthrough feature, from
a virtual USB stick emulated by g_mass_storage. This is the kind of
things we need to automatically test.)

And, even if it was, as far as I understand it, moving a bunch of
bare-metal USB sticks from some an always-on server in a datacenter to
another one, and sharing the stick over IP, is no solution for us: our
problem is to avoid plugging a bunch of bare-metal USB sticks into
a server in a datacenter, in the first place.

So, unfortunately, it looks like no existing solution currently in
Debian is good enough for our needs.