[libvirt] [PATCH] Add PCI sysfs reset access

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Mar 18 10:18:58 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:26:36PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I'm proposing we make use of $PCIDIR/reset in qemu-kvm to reset
> devices on VM reset.  We need to add it to libvirt's list of
> files that get ownership for device assignment.

What does access to the 'reset' file allow you todo ?  If we're
to allow access, it must only allow for Function Level Resets.
We don't want QEMU doing bus level resets, for example, since
that could impact other VMs.

Daniel
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