Re: [PATCH] qemu: Don't break domain with 0:0:2.0 assigned to anything but VGA

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:05:03 -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 08:47 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > In the past we didn't reserve 0:0:2.0 PCI address if there was no video
> > device assigned to a domain, which made it impossible to add a video
> > device later on. So we fixed it (commit v0.9.0-37-g7b2cac1) by always
> > reserving that address. However, that breaks existing domains without
> > video devices that already have another device assigned to the
> > problematic address.
> > 
> > This patch reserves address 0:0:2.0 only in case it was not explicitly
> > assigned to another device, which means libvirt will try to keep this
> > address free and will not automatically assign it new devices. But
> > existing domains for which older libvirt already assigned the address to
> > a non-video device will keep working as they used to work before 0.9.1.
> > Moreover, users who want to create a domain without a video device and
> > use its address for another device may do so by explicitly configuring
> > the PCI address in domain XML.
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_command.c |   21 +++++++++++++++------
> >  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.
> 
> Nasty that we had a regression in ABI for that long.

Thanks, pushed.

Jirka

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