Hi, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 10/09/09 18:32, Daniel Veillard wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:26:07PM +0200, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: >>> Hi, >> Hi Wolfgang, >> >>> this patch reworks libvirt's disk-hotadd support and >>> introduces support for disk controller hotplugging and disk-hotremove >>> (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/15860 for >>> more details). Currently, it targets only qemu and also requires some >>> additions to qemu that have only recently been submitted, which is >>> why this is cross-posted to qemu-devel. Hopefully the lack of support >>> in qemu does not prevent the community from reviewing the code, >>> though ;-) >> Could you update us on the status for those patches, is there >> any chance to get this in QEmu upstream ? I have only seen feddback >> from Gerd Hoffmann on that thread but maybe I'm missing some of the >> action ! sorry, I did not get that mail for some reason, so I did not reply. > > Note: upstream qemu got device_add and device_del monitor commands > meanwhile which can be used to hotplug devices. > > device_add accepts the same syntax the -device command line switch expects. > > device_del expectes an id. > > For libvirt it probably makes sense to start supporting this when > switching over to -device (probably for qemu 0.12+). Since it does most likely not make sense to include my drive_del implementation into qemu 0.11 mainline, I'll add libvirt support for these after I finish doing the structural changes suggested by Daniel Berrange. Cheers, Wolfgang -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list