From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] virtio block driver for QEMU (v2) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:26:42 -0600 Message-ID: <4738E132.5050303@us.ibm.com> References: <11947512401155-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <11947512432057-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <20071112150211.GA14436@redhat.com> <47386BA9.8050000@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47386BA9.8050000-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:20:36PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> This patch implements a very naive virtio block device backend in QEMU. >>> There's a lot of room for future optimization. We need to merge a >>> -disk patch >>> before we can provide a mechanism to expose this to users. >>> >> >> The latest generation of -disk patches posted to upstream qemu-devel are >> looking quite promising & with any luck should get accepted for merge in >> the very near future. >> >> Are these block & net drivers able todo hot-plug/unplug after a domain >> has been created ? If so we'd also want to have disk_add/disk_remove >> and net_add/net_remove monitor commands (cf usb_add/usb_remove) for >> on-the-fly changes. >> > > Some poor soul would need to add this functionality to kvm's acpi tables. I don't think there's anything I need to do in virtio-pci to support this. I would just see a ->probe() event I imagine. Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/