Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]

Jamie Lokier
2009-06-16T18:32:24Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Another issue is enumeration. Guests will present their devices in the
> order they find them on the pci bus (of course enumeration is guest
> specific). So if I have 2 virtio controllers the only way I can
> distinguish between them is using their pci slots.

virtio controllers really should have a user-suppliable string or UUID
to identify them to the guest. Don't they?

-- Jamie