[libvirt PATCH 0/4] Support autostart for mediated devices

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 11:25:26AM +0200, Boris Fiuczynski wrote:
> On 5/25/21 12:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > > This is a short patch series based on an initial patch from Boris Fiuczynski
> > > that I massaged a little bit and added a few additional patches.
> > > 
> > > This allows you to define mediated devices in libvirt which are started
> > > automatically at boot or parent device plugin.
> > 
> > Sorry I missed review of this series before it was merged, but I think
> > this design aproach is seriously wrong. This is exposing autostart as
> > an XML property, but in all other parts of libvirt we expose autostart
> > as an explicit API. I think we need to make the implemnentation
> > consistent with the rest of libvirt.
> 
> Daniel,
> just wondering, if libvirt exposes this as an explicit API would the
> assumption be that when a user sets up the device to autostart via libvirt
> after a system reboot libvirt takes care of everything to bring the device
> back up again?
> 
> mdevctl does not take care of device driver binding of alternative device
> drivers, e.g. vfio.
> 
> Does that meet libvirt user expectations and be consistent with the rest of
> libvirt?

Autostart merely means that the equivalent of virNodeDeviceCreate is
done at startup. 


Regards,
Daniel
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