From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:43:57 +0300 Message-ID: <4A3633FD.4010208@redhat.com> References: <20090610150129.GC28601@redhat.com> <200906101624.30659.paul@codesourcery.com> <20090610174301.GC7416@shareable.org> <20090610182227.GN28601@redhat.com> <20090610192702.GH7416@shareable.org> <1244796209.16425.20.camel@blaa> <4A326B5C.5010501@codemonkey.ws> <1244821292.30522.56.camel@blaa> <4A327E4A.7010300@codemonkey.ws> <1244825303.26769.19.camel@blaa> <20090614095016.GA7560@redhat.com> <1245056916.6891.31.camel@blaa> <4A3613EC.6030608@redhat.com> <87ocsp687t.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Carsten Otte , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel To: Markus Armbruster Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60693 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753323AbZFOLqD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:46:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ocsp687t.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: (adding cc) On 06/15/2009 02:35 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Not really. QEMU gives just the host bridge a fixed slot[*]. All the > other slots are available. > qemu needs to export these two bits of information: the first free slot and the number of slots. More generally, which slots are open. We can assume 1:31, but that's unlovely. > The real problem is devices that get implicitly added, like the SCSI > controller. Those devices get their slots auto-assigned, which can > interfere with slot numbers chosen by the user. We need a way to avoid > that, as you suggested elsewhere in this thread. > Paul/Anthony, can we have -vga pci_addr=, -usb-controller pci_addr=, and -drive pci_addr= (and later, -disk-controller)? Stalling while waiting for the ultimate config file is only generating pain and out-of-tree patches. (I'd be quite happy constructing the entire machine config on the command line, but I realize it's just me) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function