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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Marcos Oviedo <moviedo.maillist@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Add force option support to pci_del command
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:38:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0F450B.5000802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil60phutH1zA9qn9fsI83frmcA177LqFR2zmJUL@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/09/10 07:37, Marcos Oviedo wrote:
> This adds a way to force the removal/unplug of previously added pci
> devices when ACPI-based hotplug mechanism is not present.

Point being?

If your guest can't handle pci hotplug it is pretty useless to plug in 
hardware in the first place.

If your guest supports pci hotplug it will be quite upset if you zap the 
hardware without asking via ACPI.

cheers,
   Gerd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09  5:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Add force option support to pci_del command Marcos Oviedo
2010-06-09  6:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-06-09  7:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2010-06-09 14:00   ` Marcos Oviedo
2010-06-09 14:27     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-14 16:59       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-15  8:46         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-06-15  9:03         ` Markus Armbruster
2010-06-17 18:15           ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-06-17 18:20             ` Anthony Liguori

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