Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qdev: Mark devices as non-hotpluggable by default

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 September 2017 at 18:51, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> You should be able to on the command line for x86 do something
>> like -device virtio-pci,... -device virtio-foo-device,...
>> to manually create the pci transport and the backend.
>
> virtio-pci is abstract, so this is not possible.  (The same
> applies to virtio-ccw-device).

Did I use the wrong device name? I meant the transport
layer device (which virtio-pci-blk creates along with
virtio-blk-device internally), not the abstract device
that's a base class for the pci devices.

thanks
-- PMM