On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 19:44 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > Worst case we hardcode those numbers (gasp, faint). > > > > Maybe we can just add the open slots to the -help output. That'd be nice > > and clean. I was being sarcastic - libvirt currently must parse qemu -help, and even has some test infrastructure to check that it works with various versions of qemu. Extending this would not be nice and clean :-) > I particularly don't like the idea of arcane machine-dependent slot > allocation knowledge living in libvirt, because it needs to be in Qemu > anyway for non-libvirt users. No point in having two implementations > of something tricky and likely to have machine quirks, if one will do. Indeed. Cheers, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html