Windows Desktop USB Port as a Device ( and not as a Host )

Question

Use-case description ( USB Remoting )

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• 2 Windows Desktop machines are connected using a USB cable
• Desktop machine [A] simulate a HID keyboard for the USB connected Desktop machine [B]
  
  

Implementation

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For desktop machine [A] ( that simulate the HID Keyboard ), the USB Should act as a USB Device ( and not as a USB Host ), and hence, register on Desktop machine [B] PNP Manager as a HID Keyboard, while on the same time, It shouldn't register on the PNP manager of machine [A] ( the machine simulating the HID Keyboard ).

Questions

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• Does windows support setting up a USB Port/Bus as a Device and not as a Host ( assuming OTG support ) ?
• If not, is there any off-the-shelf HW/SW supporting this kind of functionality ?

Answer 1

There are three types of USB interfaces:

1) USB Host 2) USB Device 3) USB OTG (On The Go - Host + Device)

USB Host port cannot be configured to work as USB device port and typically desktop motherboard come only with USB Host port.