support Windows user-side

[slivingston]

This can take at least three forms:

• Vagrant-managed VM
• docker-for-windows (also, cf. https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows)
• direct proxy of hardware via rerobots filters

[slivingston]

work is beginning on this today

[slivingston]

Notes about serial drivers on Windows:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/usbcon/usb-driver-installation-based-on-compatible-ids
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/samples/serial-driver-samples

Project to provide USB/IP for Windows: https://github.com/cezanne/usbip-win

userspace FTDI USB driver: https://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/

[slivingston]

To clarify the scope of this issue, the goal is for someone on a Windows host to be able to program a remote device using a Windows-native IDE. The motivating use-case is Atmel Studio.

[slivingston]

for the case of hosting the hardshare client on Windows, we have https://github.com/rerobots/hardshare/issues/6

[HolyChris]

Request from: Microchip

As a user, I can connect to a usb device via a hardshare instance so that Atmel Studio can recognize a remote USB device.

See video for reference: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n7V8hgVyCUoPZAjf6NvutzR_95PXljWk/view?usp=sharing