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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] device-assignment: add config fd qdev property
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:27:08 -0500
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On 05/19/2010 04:59 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure I have a better suggestion though.
>>>>          
>>> Anything else requires inventing some new commandline options and monitor
>>> comnmands (-pcidevice anyone? ;-).  I'm not sure the benefit, esp with
>>> hopes of moving to uio.
>>>        
>> Yeah, I think device passthrough is going to require new command
>> line syntax to be more qemu friendly...
>>      
> Right, and I think we should do that in the context of redoing the
> infrastructure.  What do you think?
>    

Yeah, as long as it's understood that this in on the horizon 
(particularly on the libvirt side).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> thanks,
> -chris
>