Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] qmp: add BLOCK_MEDIUM_EJECT event

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/17/2012 10:53 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> > Note: device models call bdrv_eject() whether the state changed or not.
>> > The only use for that I can see is syncing a wayward physical tray to
>> > the virtual one.  Shouldn't be necessary with Paolo's recent work,
>> > should it?
>> 
>> The one case that I'm unsure about is migration. I thought we sync the
>> physical tray with the virtual one then (or at least we discussed it),
>> but I don't really know what we do today, or even what the right thing
>> to do is in some cases.
>
> Migration with passthrough doesn't make sense.  The only way it could
> work (untested) is if the destination connected via iSCSI to the
> source's CD-ROM.  In which case the physical and virtual tray would be
> synced already.

Maybe we should prevent migration with CD-ROM pass-through just like we
do for PCI pass-through.