Re: [PATCH 2/6] virtio block driver for QEMU (v2)

Avi Kivity
2007-11-12T15:05:13Z

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.

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