Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] all vga: fail graicefully when vga ports are taken

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 05/18/10 14:33, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann<kraxel@redhat.com>  writes:
>
>> Try to pci hotplug a vga card, watch qemu die with hw_error().
>> This patch fixes it.
>
> Looks good.
>
> Are there any other hot-pluggable devices that acquire single-use
> resources such as fixed I/O ports?

Any PCI device doing ISA compatibility stuff I'd guess, which makes IDE 
a candidate.  Checking ...

Yes (hw/ide/piix.c):

     ide_init_ioport(&d->bus[0], 0x1f0, 0x3f6);
     ide_init_ioport(&d->bus[1], 0x170, 0x376);

Those are tagged with "no-user" though due to being hard-coded in pc.c, 
so any attempt to hot-plug one of those should fail way before it 
attempts to grab the I/O ports.

cheers,
   Gerd