[libvirt] [PATCH 0/7] QEMU network/bridge backed NIC hotplug

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 22:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:29PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > 
> > Hey,
> >         So, here are the patches needed to complete the QEMU NIC hotplug
> > work by supporting network and bridge backed interfaces.
> > 
> >         We support this by passing a tap file descriptor to qemu over
> > the monitor socket using SCM_RIGHTS.
> > 
> >         The monitor commands required for this (getfd and closefd) are
> > queued up in Anthony's queue and should be in qemu-0.11-rc1 which is due
> > to be released very soon:
> > 
> >   http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=4edd6c2645
> >   http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=f4069061e3
> > 
> >         Note: I just remembered I'm not handling missing support for
> > these commands very well. I'll make it handle an 'unknown command' reply
> > gracefully by failing the attach tommorrow.
> 
> ACK to this patch series since its almost certainly going into QEMU
> upstream any minute. It doesn't have any public API impact, so worst
> case we later change / remove it.

Thanks, it's upstream now:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=c1d6eed7e8

as is the machine type aliases:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=9574758134

This is on the 0.12 branch, but I've asked for them to be pulled into
the stable-0.11 branch ... we'll see.

Cheers,
Mark.