[libvirt-users] machine='pc-q35-2.1' and sata controller

[John Snow]

On 08/10/2015 01:05 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 08/10/2015 12:41 AM, Michael Darling wrote:
>> What's the status of the SATA controller migration bug?  Are the patches for it expected to be in 2.4?
>> Looks like they didn't make it into 2.3.
> 
> That's a question better suited for the qemu developers than us. I'm
> Cc'ing John Snow, who authored the qemu patches. John?
> 

All of the issues I am aware of have been fixed for 2.4.
If you run into issues, please report them to me and qemu-devel at nongnu.org.

Thanks!

>> Since you last wrote, if the SATA controller patches aren't in yet, is there any new way
>>  to avoid the SATA controller device, if you have no SATA devices?
> 
> No, it is impossible for libvirt to remove the SATA controller - as I
> explained in the email you replied to, if you start up a q35-based qemu
> virtual machine, it will have a SATA controller at 00:1f.2 and there is
> no way provided by qemu to prevent this, so we just have to live with it
> until it's fixed in qemu.
> 

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