From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] qemu: PCI device, disk and host network hot-add / hot-remove
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:24:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocxckofr.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090208172844.GA3854@amt.cnet> (Marcelo Tosatti's message of "Sun\, 8 Feb 2009 15\:28\:45 -0200")
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:08:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>> Add monitor command to hot-add PCI devices (nic and storage).
>>> Syntax is:
>>> pci_add pci_addr=[[<domain>:]<bus>:]<slot> nic|storage params
>>> It returns the domain, bus and slot for the newly added device on
>>> success
>>
>> Instead of returning something, how about
>>
>> pci_add pci_addr=...,name=blah
>>
>> and then
>>
>> pci_del blah
>>
>> 'info pci' could also output the name so that it could be associated
>> with the bus address.
>
> Sure that can be done. Like an alias. So you identify <domain,bus,slot>
> with a name. I can see it simplifies direct management of hotplug on the
> monitor.
>
> Markus, Daniel, any comments on that?
No objections from me, but Dan is the man to tell us what simplifies
management software and what doesn't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 17:44 [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] pci hotplug v2 Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-06 17:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 1/2] pci device registration helpers Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-06 17:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] qemu: PCI device, disk and host network hot-add / hot-remove Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-08 10:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-08 17:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-09 8:24 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2009-02-09 8:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-02-09 22:41 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-10 12:20 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-02-10 12:32 ` Paul Brook
2009-02-06 18:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] pci hotplug v2 Marcelo Tosatti
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2009-02-06 18:48 [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] pci hotplug v2 (for real) Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-06 18:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] qemu: PCI device, disk and host network hot-add / hot-remove Marcelo Tosatti
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