While working on this, I've discovered a qemu crasher [1], so there are not tested properly. If you have pointers how to test vhost-user without need to install openvswitch, I'm all ears. 1: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02933.html Michal Privoznik (9): qemuDomainAttachNetDevice: Explicitly list allowed types for hotplug qemuDomain{Attach,Remove}NetDevice: Prefer qemuDomainSupportsNetdev qemuBuildChrChardevStr: Introduce @nowait argument qemuBuildVhostuserCommandLine: Reuse qemuBuildChrChardevStr qemuBuildHostNetStr: Realign qemuBuildHostNetStr: Explicitly enumerate net types qemuBuildVhostuserCommandLine: Unify -netdev creation qemuBuildHostNetStr: Support VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_VHOSTUSER qemu_hotplug: Support interface type of vhost-user hotplug src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 169 ++++++++++++--------- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 83 ++++++++-- .../qemuxml2argv-net-vhostuser-multiq.args | 6 +- .../qemuxml2argv-net-vhostuser.args | 4 +- 4 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) -- 2.8.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list