Add a --host-device command to virt-install. It takes a libvirt nodedev
name as it's only argument, and attaches the associated device to the
new VM.
Thanks,
Cole
# HG changeset patch
# User Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Node ID d1a254a2477e4577e6f26fe38c90e78315bec73e
# Parent 624895ec659067a0204eef702150839fa77ad01e
virt-install: Add --host-device command.
diff -r 624895ec6590 -r d1a254a2477e man/en/virt-install.pod
--- a/man/en/virt-install.pod Sun Mar 01 21:42:13 2009 -0500
+++ b/man/en/virt-install.pod Sun Mar 01 21:42:32 2009 -0500
@@ -272,6 +272,11 @@
Request that the virtual console be configured to run with a non-English
keyboard layout.
+=item --host-device=HOSTDEV
+
+Attach a physical host device to the guest. HOSTDEV is a node device name
+as used by libvirt (as shown by 'virsh nodedev-list').
+
=item --accelerate
When installing a QEMU guest, make use of the KVM or KQEMU kernel acceleration
diff -r 624895ec6590 -r d1a254a2477e virt-install
--- a/virt-install Sun Mar 01 21:42:13 2009 -0500
+++ b/virt-install Sun Mar 01 21:42:32 2009 -0500
@@ -350,6 +350,9 @@
geng.add_option("", "--cpuset", type="string", dest="cpuset",
action="callback", callback=cli.check_before_store,
help=_("Set which physical CPUs Domain can use."))
+ geng.add_option("", "--host-device", type="string", dest="hostdevs",
+ action="callback", callback=cli.check_before_append,
+ help=_("Physical host device to attach to the domain."))
parser.add_option_group(geng)
fulg = OptionGroup(parser, _("Full Virtualization specific options."))
@@ -600,6 +603,9 @@
cli.get_graphics(options.vnc, options.vncport, options.nographics,
options.sdl, options.keymap, guest)
+ # Set host device info
+ cli.get_hostdevs(options.hostdevs, guest)
+
get_extraargs(options.extra, guest)
# and now for the full-virt vs paravirt specific questions
diff -r 624895ec6590 -r d1a254a2477e virtinst/cli.py
--- a/virtinst/cli.py Sun Mar 01 21:42:13 2009 -0500
+++ b/virtinst/cli.py Sun Mar 01 21:42:32 2009 -0500
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
import libvirt
import _util
+import virtinst
from virtinst import CapabilitiesParser, VirtualNetworkInterface, \
VirtualGraphics, VirtualAudio, User
from virtinst import _virtinst as _
@@ -360,6 +361,13 @@
if sound:
guest.sound_devs.append(VirtualAudio(model="es1370"))
+def get_hostdevs(hostdevs, guest):
+
+ for devname in hostdevs:
+ dev = virtinst.VirtualHostDevice.device_from_node(conn=guest.conn,
+ name=devname)
+ guest.hostdevs.append(dev)
+
### Option parsing
def check_before_store(option, opt_str, value, parser):
if len(value) == 0:
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