Libvirt shouldn't forbid the operation as unsupported. In fact, from VFIO point of view, mdevs have supported hot plug since the beginning. Then it's up to the 3rd party vendor driver whether it can cope with this feature reliably or not. Since v1 [1]: - dropped the original patch 1 as that adjustment can be done in a bigger scale across multiple modules as part of a 'bite-sized' task - reworded commit message for patches 2 and 3 - fixed the error path in patch 1 where I mistakenly tried to re-attach all host devices for a domain if the hotplug of an mdev failed [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-March/msg01631.html Erik Skultety (3): qemu: hotplug: Introduce hot plug support for mediated devices qemu: hotplug: Introduce hot unplug for mediated devices news: Update release news with mediated devices hot {plug,unplug} docs/news.xml | 10 ++++ src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 143 insertions(+) -- 2.14.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
