Re: [Qemu-devel] How to change the PCI bus number for a devcie?

[Markus Armbruster]

Jiang Wang <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi:
>
> I find that all the pci device in QEMU is under the PCI bus 00. I want
> to change one device (like rtl8139 nic) to appear in a different bus
> number, such as 02. Is that possible? How? The target will be i386
> and/or x86_64.
>
> I noticed that there is one email  about changing the function number
> as follows:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-01/msg01480.html
>
> But I want to change the bus number. For example, using some config
> file or command line options. If there is no such patch, is it
> difficult to modify the source code ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jiang

I am working on a patch that should eventually give you the feature you
want.  If you're curious, watch out for subject "[RFC] Machine
description as data".