Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Add generic drive hotplugging

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/23/2010 05:45 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Device_add already works with this set and only required minor changes the s390 
> > specific code. So that part was pretty slick :). The part that didn't work was 
> > the drive_add one.
> >
> > What is blockdev_add supposed to be? drive_add without IF_SCSI?

drive_add without if= and without the PCI-isms.

> > To be a bit more precise on how things work with this set:
> >
> > (qemu) drive_add 0 id=my_disk,if=none,file=/dev/null
> > OK
> >      

In theory, something like:

(qemu) blockdev_add id=my_disk,file=/dev/null

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> > (qemu) device_add virtio-blk-s390,drive=my_disk,id=new_disk
> >
> > gives me a working new virtio disk in the VM that's mapped to /dev/null :).
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >