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

[John Levon]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:35:09AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:

> Adding the device to the xml for an inactive domain is fine by me
> (though it would essentially be a convenience function), but I would
> like to ensure that if the domain is active and the device is not
> hotpluggable, we throw a failure. Without that, there isn't any way to
> determine that attachDevice on the active domain did anything
> immediately useful.

But there's then also no way to attach a device for after a reboot. The
interfaces have messed up the idea of runtime versus temporary versus
permanent changes, and I think we have to muddle along as best we can...

regards
john