On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 03:47:09PM +0000, Derrick, Jonathan wrote: > A cloud service provider might have several VMs on a single system and > wish to provide surprise hotplug functionality within the guests so > that they don't need to bring the whole server down or migrate VMs in > order to swap disks. And how does the vmd mechanism help with that? Maybe qemu is missing a memremap to not access the remove device right now, but adding that is way simpler than having to deal with a device that makes everyones life complicated.