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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] |
Date: | Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:45:01 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) |
Avi Kivity wrote:
On 06/14/2009 12:50 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:48:23PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:However, in order to retain compat for that SCSI device (e.g. ensuring the PCI address doesn't change as other devices are added an removed), we're back to the same problem ... either:1) Use '-drive file=foo.img,if=scsi,pci_addr=foo'; in order to figure out what address to use, libvirt would need to query qemu for whataddress was originally allocated to device or it would do all the PCI address allocation itself ...This last option makes sense to me: in a real world the user has control over where he places the device on the bus, so why not with qemu?Yes, the user build the machine using the command line and monitor (or, in 2017, the machine configuration file),
Considering pbrook just posted a machine config for arm, I think it would be rather sad if pc wasn't converted to it by 2017...
then turns on the power. Command line options are the parts lying around when we start.btw, -drive needs to be separated: -controller type=lsi1234,pci_addr=foobar,name=blah -drive file=foo.img,controller=blah,index=0 -drive file=bar.img,controller=blah,index=1 Drives to not have pci addresses.
Drivers don't have indexes and buses but we specify it on the -drive line. -drive is convenient syntax. It stops being convenient when you force it to be two options.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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