On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 22:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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. > > ACK to this patch series since its almost certainly going into QEMU > upstream any minute. It doesn't have any public API impact, so worst > case we later change / remove it. Thanks, it's upstream now: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=c1d6eed7e8 as is the machine type aliases: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=9574758134 This is on the 0.12 branch, but I've asked for them to be pulled into the stable-0.11 branch ... we'll see. Cheers, Mark. -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list