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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in
	libvirt
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:12:22 +0000
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

> Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:
> >> > IMO the no_user flag is a bug, and should not exist.
> >>
> >> Sorry, what's that?
> >
> > Usually an indication that a device has been incorrectly or inproperly
> > converted to the qdev interface.
> 
> Can also be an indication that the device can't support multiple
> instances.  For instance:
>        qdev: Tag isa-fdc, PIIX3 IDE and PIIX4 IDE as no-user

I still claim this is a bug, and see no good reason why we shouldn't support 
multiple floppy controllers, ISA busses, etc.

Paul