From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:32:22 +0100
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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