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

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:32:49PM +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Guido Günther wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:30:30AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> [..snip..] 
>>> 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. This patch seems to add offline support
>> We don't even persist the devices being hot{added,removed} into the
>> domain xml so acting on inactive domains has no meaning or am I missing
>> something?
>
> When the domain is enabled, and you store it... you basically get that  
> behavior.
Exactly my point: when the domain is *enabled*.
 -- Guido