On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:29PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Hey, > So, here are the patches needed to complete the QEMU NIC hotplug > work by supporting network and bridge backed interfaces. > > We support this by passing a tap file descriptor to qemu over > the monitor socket using SCM_RIGHTS. > > The monitor commands required for this (getfd and closefd) are > queued up in Anthony's queue and should be in qemu-0.11-rc1 which is due > to be released very soon: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=4edd6c2645 > http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=f4069061e3 > > Note: I just remembered I'm not handling missing support for > these commands very well. I'll make it handle an 'unknown command' reply > gracefully by failing the attach tommorrow. Yes that's my main uncertainty about this patch set, we assume the support is present and I don't see any detection code, can you send this quickly to finish the serie of patches ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list