[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 10/15] virtio-serial: Add QMP events for failed port/device add

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:17:17 +0530
Amit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:

> On (Wed) Mar 24 2010 [17:34:15], Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:19:28 +0530
> > Amit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > When adding a port or a device to the guest fails, management software
> > > might be interested in knowing and then cleaning up the host-side of the
> > > port. Introduce QMP events to signal such errors.
> > 
> >  I'm completely unfamiliar with virtio-serial, so let me ask: how are ports
> > added? I'd expect the command performing this operation to fail in this 
> > case.
> 
> If adding the port fails in qemu, then the command will fail. However if
> adding the port in the guest fails, we raise this QMP event. Adding in
> the guest could fail because of several reasons, like ENOMEM. In this
> case, the mgmt might want to hot-unplug the port from qemu so that
> resources are freed and also apps are notified of guest side not ready.

 Ok, what about a disconnect? Does virtio-serial have this kind of action?