On 03.07.2013 15:59, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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 > But that's just a QEMU limitation. If QEMU learns to hotplug a device onto ISA bus, libvirt will allow it. Michal -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list