https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52081
--- Comment #5 from Alois Schlögl alois.schloegl@gmail.com --- (In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #4)
(In reply to Alois Schlögl from comment #2)
I tested this with one, using usbip on the host system, and at least one software package (Kaluza, it installs locally a sentinel license manager), falls to install doing that.
That might just be a bug with the software in question. I'm assuming it just wants to see a USB device in Wine?
That is possible but unlike, because the same software/installer runs on windows w/o a usb dongle connected - it results in installing the evaluation function, and later, when the dongle is attached, one can change to the dongle license.
And I tried loading vhci on the host (I tested with "modprobe vhci_hcd"), that does not help running these applications within wine either.
For clarification, it would be perfectly fine for me if usbip would be integrated in wine without the need for usbip-win. It just needs to provide a solution, that allows to run the usbip client commands which are:
attach Attach a remote USB device detach Detach a remote USB device list List exportable or local USB devices port Show imported USB devices
One can do these also on the host, in that case the functions of the driver provided by that device need to be made accessible to software running within wine.