Hi ----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:51:48PM +0400, marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > I am working on a WIP series to add QEMU Spice/virgl rendernode option. > > Since rendernodes are not stable across reboots, I propose that QEMU > > accepts also a PCI address (other bus types may be added in the future). > > Hmm, can you elaborate on this aspect ? It feels like a parallel > to saying NIC device names are not stable, so we should configure > guests using PCI addresses instead of 'eth0', etc but we stuck with > using NIC names in libvirt on the basis that you can create udev > rules to ensure stable naming ? > > So is there not a case to be made that if you want stable render > device names when multiple NICs are present, then you should use > udev to ensure a given device always maps to the same PCI dev. I thought it was simpler to use a PCI address (do you expect users to create udev rules for the GPUs?) We could also allow both form (this is what I'll propose in qemu, fyi https://github.com/elmarco/qemu/commits/spice) > > This is how I translated it to libvirt. I picked <gpu> over > > <rendernode>, since it seems more generic. Comments welcome! > > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
