On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 20:31:03 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 11/18/20 11:24 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 09:57:14 +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote: [...] > Would it make sense to relax the current limitation in libvirt and allow > <disk type='nvme'/> (which is meant for cases where the backend is a NVMe > disk) to be on something else than 'virtio' bus? This is really orthogonal to the emulated NVMe controller. A <disk type='nvme'> can theoretically back any disk frontend. I don't remember now why we actually mandate it only for virtio. Do you? Apart from that, it doesn't make that much sense to use <disk type='nvme' for an emulated NVMe drive again. You are way better of using direct PCI asignment.