usbip-rs

A complete Rust rewrite of the Linux USB/IP userspace stack including:

• usbip CLI tool (vhci_hcd/usbip_host)
• usbipd server daemon (usbip_host)

[!WARNING] This project is still actively in development, so a lot about the library and CLI interfaces are subject to change

This rewrite aims to improve the user and developer experience when interacting with the usbip kernel modules (vhci_hcd and usbip_host) in several ways:

• Rust lib crate to fulfill all the original CLI functions
• New CLI features
  • Nicer argument parsing using clap
  • Improved output format that is easier to read and shows more data
  • JSON output mode for easy parsing
    • If usbip-rs-cli exits with code 0, stdout will contain a JSON object on a single line with a terminating new line (\n) character
  • Significantly improved error messages
  • Better debug logging using tracing
• Legacy CLI output mode for backwards compatability with the original CLI interface
• Better performance (does not read in hwdb on startup)
• More secure (implemented in 100% safe rust using #![forbid(unsafe_code)])
• Fixes some bugs in the original implemenation (like not being able to address more than 256 virtual device ports)

Planned Features

• Async library API
• VUDC integration
• New userspace network protocol (authentication? might not be worth it without new kernel drivers too)