Re: -pcidevice broken - fix or remove it?

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Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> looks like the documented way to configure device assignment at qemu-kvm
> level is broken in 0.13 and git head:
>
>   # qemu-system-x86_64 -pcidevice host=0:1a.0
>   qemu-system-x86_64: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier
>   Identifiers consist of letters, digits, '-', '.', '_', starting with a letter.
>   pcidevice argument parse error; please check the help text for usage
>
> "-device pci-assign" works, but only if specify "iommu=0" (otherwise: No
> IOMMU found.  Unable to assign device "(null)").
>
> Fix that legacy qemu-kvm switch or remove it at this chance? No one
> seems to have complained yet.
>
> Jan

Broken since June.  Xudong Hao (cc'ed) reported it then[1], and
Hidetoshi Seto (also cc'ed) attempted to get it patched [2,3].

Removing -pcidevice would be fine with me.  For what it's worth, it's
not in upstream qemu.


[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-06/msg02858.html
[2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-06/msg03073.html
[3] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-06/msg02858.html
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