Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] qemu: PCI device, disk and host network hot-add / hot-remove

[Markus Armbruster]

Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:08:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>> Add monitor command to hot-add PCI devices (nic and storage).
>>>     Syntax is:
>>>     pci_add pci_addr=[[<domain>:]<bus>:]<slot> nic|storage params
>>>     It returns the domain, bus and slot for the newly added device on 
>>> success
>>
>> Instead of returning something, how about
>>
>>  pci_add pci_addr=...,name=blah
>>
>> and then
>>
>>  pci_del blah
>>
>> 'info pci' could also output the name so that it could be associated  
>> with the bus address.
>
> Sure that can be done. Like an alias. So you identify <domain,bus,slot>
> with a name. I can see it simplifies direct management of hotplug on the
> monitor.
>
> Markus, Daniel, any comments on that?

No objections from me, but Dan is the man to tell us what simplifies
management software and what doesn't.