- Fully compatible with USB/IP protocol
- Works with Linux USB/IP server at least for kernels 4.19 - 6.11
- WHLK certified drivers
- Download Microsoft Hardware Certification Report
- Certification was made possible thanks to Open Source Codesigning Initiative
- Create a restore point before installing USBip
- Devices that work (the list is incomplete)
- Windows 10 x64 Version 1903 (OS build 18362) and later
- Windows 11 ARM64
- USB/IP server must support protocol v.1.1.1
- UDE driver is an USB/IP client
- A device-specific upper filter driver usbip2_filter is used as companion for UDE driver
- Winsock Kernel NPI is used
- The driver establishes TCP/IP connection with a server and does data exchange
- This implies low latency and high throughput, absence of frequent CPU context switching and a lot of syscalls
- Zero copy of transfer buffers is implemented for network send and receive operations
- Memory Descriptor List is used to send multiple buffers in a single call (vectored I/O)
- WskSend reads data from URB transfer buffer
- WskReceive writes data to URB transfer buffer
- A dedicated thread is created for each virtual device to receive data from a server
Differences with cezanne/usbip-win
- The 2-Clause BSD License since release 0.9.7.0
- WHLK certified drivers
- Brand new UDE driver, not inherited from the parent repo
- Full-featured GUI app
- Userspace code is fully rewritten (libusbip and usbip utility)
- SDK for third party developers (libusbip public API)
- InnoSetup installer is used for installation of drivers and userspace stuff
- Windows 10 version 1903 or later is required
- C++ 20 is used for all projects
- Visual Studio 2022 is used
- Server (stub driver) is removed
- x64/arm64 builds only
- Visual Studio 2022
- SDK/WDK installation is not required, NuGet will install them automatically
- Install git
- Run Visual Studio Installer
- Select "Individual components" tab
- Type "git" in search box
- Check "Git for Windows"
- Install selected items
- Clone project using git or download an archive from github and extract source code
- Run
bootstrap.bat - Open
usbip_win2.sln - Set certificate driver signing for
packageproject- Right-click on the
Project > Properties > Driver Signing > Test Certificate - Enter
usbip.pfx(password: usbip)
- Right-click on the
- Build the solution
- All output files are created under {x64,ARM64}/{Debug,Release} folders.
- Install required packages
- Linux
sudo apt install linux-tools-generic linux-cloud-tools-generic - Raspberry Pi
sudo apt install usbip hwdata usbutils
- Linux
- Load modules and run the daemon
sudo modprobe -a usbip-core usbip-host
sudo usbipd -D
- List available USB devices
usbip list -l
- busid 3-2 (1005:b113)
Apacer Technology, Inc. : Handy Steno/AH123 / Handy Steno 2.0/HT203 (1005:b113)
- busid 3-3.2 (07ca:513b)
AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. : unknown product (07ca:513b)
- Bind desired USB device
sudo usbip bind -b 3-2
usbip: info: bind device on busid 3-2: complete
- Your device 3-2 now can be used by usbip client
bcdedit.exe /set testsigning on- Reboot the system to apply
- Do not disable testsigning if USBip has test-signed drivers, otherwise all USB devices will not work
- Create a restore point to undo possible system crashes
- In the search box on the taskbar, type 'Create a restore point', and select it from the list of results
- On the System Protection tab in System Properties
- Make sure system drive protection is enabled
- Select Create
- Type a description for the restore point, and then select Create
- Download and run an installer from
- Some antivirus programs issue false positives for InnoSetup installer
- All USB Hub 3.0 devices will be restarted during an installation
- This means that all USB devices will stop working for a short time and then start working again.
- Make sure you don't interrupt your important workflow, such as a video call using a USB webcam, an audio call using a USB headset, etc.
- Query available USB devices on the server
usbip.exe list -r <usbip server ip>
Exportable USB devices
======================
- 192.168.1.9
3-2: unknown vendor : unknown product (1005:b113)
: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2
: (Defined at Interface level) (00/00/00)
- Attach desired remote USB device using its busid
usbip.exe attach -r <usbip server ip> -b 3-2
successfully attached to port 1
- New USB device should appear in the system, use it as usual
- Detach the remote USB device using its usb port, pass
-allto detach all remote devicesusbip.exe detach -p 1
port 1 is successfully detached
- Uninstall USB/IP app
- Disable test signing if it was enabled during the installation
bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off- Reboot the system to apply
- If the uninstaller is corrupted, run these commands as Administrator
- If you copy commands to a .bat file, use %%P and %%~nxP in FOR statement
SET HWID=ROOT\USBIP_WIN2\UDE
set APPDIR=C:\Program Files\USBip
"%APPDIR%\devnode.exe" remove %HWID% root
rem alternative command since Windows 11, version 21H2
rem pnputil.exe /remove-device /deviceid %HWID% /subtree
rem WARNING: use %%P and %%~nxP if you run this command in a .bat file
FOR /f %P IN ('findstr /M /L /Q:u "usbip2_filter usbip2_ude" C:\WINDOWS\INF\oem*.inf') DO pnputil.exe /delete-driver %~nxP /uninstall
rd /S /Q "%APPDIR%"
- WPP Software Tracing is used
- Use the tools for software tracing, such as TraceView, Tracelog, Tracefmt, and Tracepdb to configure, start, and stop tracing sessions and to display and filter trace messages
- These tools are included in the Windows Driver Kit
- Pick "Select Components/Program DataBase files" during USBip installation
- Start log sessions for drivers (run commands as Administrator)
rem change to your WDK version
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.26100.0\x64
set NAME=usbip
tracelog.exe -stop %NAME%-flt
tracelog.exe -stop %NAME%-ude
del /F %NAME%-*.*
tracepdb.exe -f "C:\Program Files\USBip\*.pdb" -s -p %TEMP%\%NAME%
tracelog.exe -start %NAME%-flt -guid #90c336ed-69fb-43d6-b800-1552d72d200b -f %NAME%-flt.etl -flag 0x3 -level 5
tracelog.exe -start %NAME%-ude -guid #ed18c9c5-8322-48ae-bf78-d01d898a1562 -f %NAME%-ude.etl -flag 0xF -level 5
- Reproduce the issue
- Stop log sessions and get plain text logs (run commands as Administrator)
- If you copy commands to a .bat file, double '%' in TRACE_FORMAT_PREFIX
rem change to your WDK version
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.26100.0\x64
set NAME=usbip
set TRACE_FORMAT_PREFIX=[%9]%3!04x! %!LEVEL! %!FUNC!:
tracelog.exe -stop %NAME%-flt
tracelog.exe -stop %NAME%-ude
tracefmt.exe -nosummary -p %TEMP%\%NAME% -o %NAME%-flt.txt %NAME%-flt.etl
tracefmt.exe -nosummary -p %TEMP%\%NAME% -o %NAME%-ude.txt %NAME%-ude.etl
rem sed -i "s/TRACE_LEVEL_CRITICAL/CRT/;s/TRACE_LEVEL_ERROR/ERR/;s/TRACE_LEVEL_WARNING/WRN/;s/TRACE_LEVEL_INFORMATION/INF/;s/TRACE_LEVEL_VERBOSE/VRB/" %NAME%-*.txt
rem sed -i "s/`anonymous namespace':://" %NAME%-*.txt
rem del /F sed*
Debugging BSOD
- Enable kernel memory dump
- Open "System Properties" dialog box
- Select "Advanced" tab
- Click on "Settings" in "Startup and Recovery"
- "System failure", "Write debugging information", pick "Automatic Memory Dump" or "Kernel Memory Dump"
- Check "Overwrite any existing file"
- Start WPP tracing session for drivers as described in the previous topic
- When BSOD has occured
- Reboot PC if automatic reboot is not set
- Run Windows debugger WinDbg.exe as Administrator
- Press Ctrl+D to open crash dump in C:\Windows
- Run following commands and copy the output
.sympath+ C:\Program Files\USBip
!wmitrace.searchpath +%TEMP%\usbip
!analyze -v
!wdfkd.wdfsearchpath %TEMP%\USBip
!wdfkd.wdfsettraceprefix [%9]%3!04x! %!LEVEL! %!FUNC!:
!wdfkd.wdflogdump usbip2_ude -d
!wdfkd.wdflogdump usbip2_ude -f
sudo killall usbipd
sudo modprobe -r usbip-host usbip-vudc vhci-hcd usbip-core
sudo modprobe usbip-core usbip_debug_flag=0xFFFFFFFF
sudo modprobe -a usbip-host usbip-vudc vhci-hcd
sudo usbipd -D
dmesg --follow | tee ~/usbip.log
- Driver Verifier is used for testing
- Run verifier.exe as Administrator
- Enable testing
verifier /rc 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 12 18 34 10 11 14 15 16 17 20 24 26 33 35 36 /driver usbip2_filter.sys usbip2_ude.sys
- Be aware that rule class 26 "Code integrity checking" forces to use NonPagedPoolNx instead of NonPagedPool
- Query driver statistics
verifier /query
- Disable testing
verifier /reset
- To run Static Driver Verifier, set "Treat Warnings As Errors" to "No" for libdrv, usbip2_filter, usbip2_ude projects
