[libvirt] [PATCH v2 11/25] conf: Add <disk model='virtio-{non-}transitional'/>

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu Jan 31 16:03:44 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 16:00 +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:32:39PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
[...]
> > +          <dt><code>model</code></dt>
> > +            <dd>
> > +            Indicates the emulated device model of the disk. Typically
> > +            this is indicated solely by the <code>bus</code> property but
> > +            for <code>bus</code> "virtio" the model can be specified further
> > +            with "virtio-transitional", "virtio-non-transitional", or
> > +            "virtio" which matches the old behavior. These settings are
> > +            only applicable when using controller bus type "pci".
> > +            <span class="since">Since 5.1.0</span>
> > +            </dd>
> 
> It would be probably good idea to explain this a little bit more and
> possibly add a reference/link to virtio specification.

Yeah, that sounds like a very good idea. We will probably want to
make it its own section, too, so that we can link to it from each
of the devices that support (non-)transitional VirtIO.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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