[libvirt-users] vhost-net requested but could not be initialized

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:48:06PM +0500, Asadullah Hussain wrote:
> Let me clarify my question, I am using unmodified stock qemu (1.4.0) and
> only the location of vhost file descriptor is different from default (I
> don't remove the default /dev/vhost-net directory)
> 
> The VHOST file descriptor is present in "/dev/vhost-0" directory instead of
> the default "/dev/vhost-net". When I try to give vhostfd in the XML I get a
> different error:

Well I suggest you make your system use the expected device
name for /dev/vhost-net. Just as libvirt only targets mainline
QEMU, we only target mainline kernel / standard device layout

Regards,
Daniel
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