Re: [PATCH] Fix explicit usage of default video PCI slots

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 18:41:25 +0100, Jano Tomko wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 06:18 PM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 17:43:33 +0100, Jano Tomko wrote:
> >> Don't set the PCI address of primary video to the default
> >> if it's already occupied by another device.
> >>
> >> Without this, a primary video card that doesn't have an
> >> address gets the default one on the 1st pass of PCI address
> >> allocation, even if it's occupied. This address gets picked
> >> up by the second pass, and a conflict occurs:
> >>
> >> XML error: Attempted double use of PCI slot 0000:00:02.0
> >> (may need "multifunction='on'" for device on function 0)
> >>
> >> Also fix the test that was supposed to catch this.
> > 
> > And does it actually work after this patch? IIRC, the primary video card
> > is forced to be at 0000:00:02.0 by QEMU. That is, if this address is
> > occupied by another device, there should be no way to add a video card.
> > 
> 
> It works without this patch too, if you explicitly specify the PCI address of
> the video card (and you have QEMU >= 1.6, because that's when we use -device
> instead of -vga - (the QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE_VIDEO_PRIMARY capability)).

Oh so this is only changing the situation for QEMU >= 1.6? This makes
more sense now although it wasn't exactly obvious when looking at the
patch without bigger context. It could be a good idea to explicitly
mention this in the commit message.

Jirka

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