Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qdev: Mark devices as non-hotpluggable by default

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 September 2017 at 18:42, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 25.09.2017 17:26, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 25 September 2017 at 16:19, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Not sure whether this works for the virtio-xxx-device devices,
>>> though, since they are marked as user_creatable = true currently...
>>
>> That's deliberate -- for the arm boards with virtio-mmio
>> the board creates a bunch of virtio-mmio transports and the
>> virtio-foo-device can be user created to plug into those.
>
> Yes, I know ... I'm just wondering whether the virtio-xxx-device devices
> should be non-user_creatable on the non-ARM targets, since they
> apparently can't be used with "-device" there...?

You should be able to on the command line for x86 do something
like -device virtio-pci,... -device virtio-foo-device,...
to manually create the pci transport and the backend.

thanks
-- PMM