From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qdev: Mark devices as non-hotpluggable by default
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:51:41 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925175141.GC3030@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9b=XOhczb=vYRJLDFR5yYqHwYFF6YtO9veYFqsEDgYsw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 September 2017 at 18:42, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 25.09.2017 17:26, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On 25 September 2017 at 16:19, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Not sure whether this works for the virtio-xxx-device devices,
> >>> though, since they are marked as user_creatable = true currently...
> >>
> >> That's deliberate -- for the arm boards with virtio-mmio
> >> the board creates a bunch of virtio-mmio transports and the
> >> virtio-foo-device can be user created to plug into those.
> >
> > Yes, I know ... I'm just wondering whether the virtio-xxx-device devices
> > should be non-user_creatable on the non-ARM targets, since they
> > apparently can't be used with "-device" there...?
>
> You should be able to on the command line for x86 do something
> like -device virtio-pci,... -device virtio-foo-device,...
> to manually create the pci transport and the backend.
virtio-pci is abstract, so this is not possible. (The same
applies to virtio-ccw-device).
--
Eduardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-22 9:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qdev: Mark devices as non-hotpluggable by default Thomas Huth
2017-09-22 10:13 ` David Gibson
2017-09-25 10:13 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2017-09-25 11:53 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-09-25 13:31 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-25 13:46 ` Igor Mammedov
2017-09-25 14:34 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-25 15:19 ` Thomas Huth
2017-09-25 15:26 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-25 17:42 ` Thomas Huth
2017-09-25 17:45 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-25 17:51 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2017-09-25 18:02 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-25 18:20 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-25 18:46 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-25 17:59 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-25 18:05 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-25 18:09 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-26 2:59 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-26 3:29 ` Thomas Huth
2017-09-26 16:11 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-26 17:27 ` Thomas Huth
2017-09-26 18:00 ` Peter Maydell
2017-09-25 17:48 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-09-26 5:26 ` Bharata B Rao
2017-09-26 10:20 ` Thomas Huth
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