From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen forum Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:08:14 +0100 Message-ID: <519E14BE.9010505@eu.citrix.com> References: <20130521142917.GO492@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1369148674.21246.92.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <519C6BC4.2050506@bobich.net> <1369216400.21246.158.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <519CE511.40908@eu.citrix.com> <5cd806502ab241902d91bf6bcf951b0d@mail.shatteredsilicon.net> <519D3076.9070406@bobich.net> <1369310697.17830.42.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1369310697.17830.42.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: xen-users , Gordan Bobic , Bartek Krawczyk , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 23/05/13 13:04, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 11:41 +0100, George Dunlap wrote: >>> Any chance of the multi-device syntax also being patched into xm for 4.3? >> I think at this point it's unlikely. Even if we had the patches, it's >> too late in the release process to risk introducing a bug to implement >> this feature. > Also since xend/xm is now deprecated (and has been since 4.2) I'm not > sure adding new features would be appropriate. > >> There is an all-purpose work-around, however. Basically all of the >> device options are parsed from the config file and then transmuted >> into qemu command-line parameters. There's a field in the config file >> that allows you to pass in a string of options directly. If you >> wanted to add more usb devices, you can do something like this: >> >> extra="-usbdevice $dev1 -usbdevice $dev2" > Do you really mean "extra", I thought that was for extra bits tacked > onto the PV kernel command. Maybe it has this alternative meaning for > HVM guests though? > > Under xl this option is "device_model_args". Not sure if xm had an > equivalent, dmargs rings a vague bell though. Apparently I don't -- sorry, I just looked through my config files and that was a line commented out that looked like it did what I wanted. But apparently that's completely wrong. And, looking through the xend code and config files, I can't seem to find an equivalent command. OK, sorry for the misdirection. :-/ -George