[libvirt] [PATCH] Allow off-line removal of devices via xend

John Levon john.levon at sun.com
Mon Feb 9 16:54:21 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:30:30AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:

> No fault of this patch, but this makes me ask the question: what exactly
> are attachDevice and detachDevice supposed to do?
> 
> In the qemu driver, it is entirely hotplug/hotunplug, and deliberately
> fails on an inactive domain.

So to add a device with qemu, you need to edit XML? Reason alone for
these methods to work on offline domains I think :)

regards
john




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