On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:05:16PM +0800, zhang bo wrote: > On 2015/6/10 13:40, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote: > > > 2015-06-10 5:28 GMT+03:00 zhang bo <oscar.zhangbo@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Thank you for your reply. > >> Before this patch, we needed to manually online memory blocks inside the guest, after dimm memory hotplug > >> for most *nix OSes. (Windows guests automatically get their memory blocks online after hotplugging) > >> That is to say, we need to LOGICALLY hotplug memory after PHYSICAL hotplug. > >> This patch did the LOGICAL part. > >> With this patch, we don't need to get into the guest to manually online them anymore, which is even > >> impossible for most host administrators. > > > > > > As i remember this online step easy can be automate via udev rules. > > > > > Logically that's true, but adding udev rules means: > 1 you have to get into the guest > 2 you have to be familar with udev rules. > > Not convenient enough compared to just calling libvirt API to do so. The udev rules are really something the OS vendor should setup, so that it "just works" Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list