[Qemu-devel] Re: Configuration vs. compat hints

[Avi Kivity]

(adding cc)

On 06/15/2009 02:35 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Not really.  QEMU gives just the host bridge a fixed slot[*].  All the
> other slots are available.
>    

qemu needs to export these two bits of information: the first free slot 
and the number of slots.

More generally, which slots are open.  We can assume 1:31, but that's 
unlovely.

> The real problem is devices that get implicitly added, like the SCSI
> controller.  Those devices get their slots auto-assigned, which can
> interfere with slot numbers chosen by the user.  We need a way to avoid
> that, as you suggested elsewhere in this thread.
>    

Paul/Anthony, can we have -vga pci_addr=, -usb-controller pci_addr=, and 
-drive pci_addr= (and later, -disk-controller)?  Stalling while waiting 
for the ultimate config file is only generating pain and out-of-tree 
patches.

(I'd be quite happy constructing the entire machine config on the 
command line, but I realize it's just me)

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