[libvirt] [PATCH 0/8] logically memory hotplug via guest agent

[zhang bo]

On 2015/6/10 13:40, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:

> 2015-06-10 5:28 GMT+03:00 zhang bo <oscar.zhangbo at huawei.com>:
>> Thank you for your reply.
>> Before this patch, we needed to manually online memory blocks inside the guest, after dimm memory hotplug
>> for most *nix OSes. (Windows guests automatically get their memory blocks online after hotplugging)
>> That is to say, we need to LOGICALLY hotplug memory after PHYSICAL hotplug.
>> This patch did the LOGICAL part.
>> With this patch, we don't need to get into the guest to manually online them anymore, which is even
>> impossible for most host administrators.
> 
> 
> As i remember this online step easy can be automate via udev rules.
> 


Logically that's true, but adding udev rules means:
1 you have to get into the guest
2 you have to be familar with udev rules.

Not convenient enough compared to just calling libvirt API to do so.

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Oscar    
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