On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:54:51AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/03/2013 07:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> What am I doing wrong with the virsh attach-device command or XML? > > > > There is no support for hotplug of any character device (that > > covers serial, parallel, console, channnel elements in the XML) > > Although that's about to change in libvirt 1.1.1: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-July/msg00125.html Yes & no. Yes, libvirt will support hotplug, but that's only actually going to work for devices which are PCI based. eg virtio-serial and virtio-console. You can't hotplug <serial> or <paralle> devices which use the ISA bus, which is what Chris was trying todo here. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list