On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 04:19:01PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > 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. > > But that's just a QEMU limitation. If QEMU learns to hotplug a device > onto ISA bus, libvirt will allow it. Did real ISA buses ever support hotplug ? I thought hotplug only came along when PCI buses arrived. I'm rather doubting anyone is going to do work for ISA device hotplug in QEMU 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