Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE][Call-For-Testing] Release 0.12.0-rc1 of QEMU

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:40:54AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/07/09 19:34, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:43:03PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>
> >>It can be downloaded from Savannah at:
> >>
> >>http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.12.0-rc1.tar.gz
> >>
> >>Please send testing feedback (positive or negative) to qemu-devel and
> >>file bugs against the release candidate at:
> >
> >A couple of hotplug issues with the old monitor
> >
> >
> >It crashes with an assertion failure when hot-plugging without ACPI 
> >enabled.
> >Previously this worked, but that was perhaps just by luck rather than
> >design.
> 
> "worked" as in "guest actually sees the new device (without reboot)" or
> "worked" as in "qemu didn't abort" ?

The latter. The guest does not see it, but it at least does not abort.
It is the 'does not abort' behaviour I'm interested in - quite OK with
this returning an error to the monitor client when acpi is disabled.

Regards,
Daniel
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