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From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@kernel.org>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Max Krasnyansky wrote:
>> btw Interface to HAL might still be useful in general to monitor other 
>> device
>> classes that we may want to automatically assign to the VMs. So I'll play
>> around with that too (some day :)).
>>   
> 
> Assign to which VMs?
> 
> Interfacing with HAL is definitely the management layer's tasks, not 
> qemu, which only knows about one guest.

With my USB patches you can now do
	qemu -name VM1 ... -usb -usbdevice host:5.*
which will dynamically grab any USB device that is attached to port 5.
And you can start another instance with
	qemu -name VM2 ... -usb -usbdevice host:6.*
and so on.
That's what I meant by assigning to the VM. ie In the example above 
port5 is assigned to VM1 and port6 to VM2.

We might want to do this with other devices (disks maybe).

Max