[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 09:30 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think
> > > adding non-transitional alias devices would overall be more
> > > user-friendly.
> > 
> > I don't think it makes sense to add it at the qemu level. From libvirt's
> > point of view users should be shielded from any qemu impl detail or
> > inconsistency as libvirt is the 'user friendly'[1] layer. In qemu the
> > devices would be the same and thus does not make sense to do that
> > because it would be more confusing.
> > 
> > You can argue that we should add the alias at the libvirt level though.
> 
> You can, but please don't.

It would seem nobody except me thinks this is a good idea, so I
guess I'll just drop it now.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization