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From: Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Interest in hardware plugin functionality
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

>I think the biggest problem would be that a lot of operating systems
>don't support hotplug PCI.
>
>  
>
I think Michael's idea was rather to select the hardware to use during 
qemu startup rather then to change it while the system is up and 
runnning. Therefore hotplugging would not be an issue.

To give some feedback as well, I like the idea of dynamic hardware as 
qemu can become even more versatile than it is right now.

With regards,
Jan