[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] start of patches to support VFIO device assignment

[Laine Stump]

On 04/23/2013 12:45 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> This work isn't finished, but since there's a freeze coming up in a
> few days, I thought I should send these patches that *are* finished to
> get them out of the way before the last minute rush.
>
> Patch 1 is trivial.
>
> Patch 2 is longer, but completely mechanical (NOTE: there may be some
> uses of that struct living in code that I lack the environment to
> compile for, so test builds by people with odd platforms would be
> appreciated!)
>
> Patch 3 is standard parser/formatter/RNG/docs for the new XML. I
> haven't added any test cases, because lacking backend functionality I
> could only test xml-to-xml, which would require adding yet another
> test xml file, and I'd rather wait until the backend
> commandline-building code is in place, then simply add the new element
> to a few existing test XML files.
>
> In email awhile ago, danpb had suggested
>
>   <driver name='vfio|qemu'/>
>
> I've used
>
>   <driver name='kvm'/>
>
> because, unlike vhost-net where <driver name='qemu'/> indicates that
> the driver used is in the usermode qemu process (and *not* in the
> kernel), in this case <driver name='kvm'/> indicates that the driver
> used is in the kernel (and I've seen it referenced in several places
> as being "done by KVM", but never as "done by QEMU" (makes sense,
> since qemu is all in userland)
>
>
> Laine Stump (3):
>   qemu: detect vfio-pci device assignment support
>   conf: put hostdev pci address in a struct
>   conf: formatter/parser/RNG/docs for hostdev <driver name='kvm|vfio'/>

I pushed these three patches after making the small changes Eric
requested. Thanks for the reviews.