Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 20/34] Assign device aliases for all devices at startup

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:23:16PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > When starting a guest, give every device a unique alias. This will > be used for the 'id' parameter in -device args in later patches. > It can also be used to uniquely identify devices in the monitor > > For old QEMU without -device, assign disk names based on QEMU's > historical naming scheme. > > * src/qemu/qemu_conf.c: Assign unique device aliases > * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Remove obsolete qemudDiskDeviceName > and use the device alias in eject & blockstats commands > --- > src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 104 ++++++----------------------- > 2 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) > How would the user see the alias in practice ? They won't be dumped in the XML if I understand correctly so how to they get exposed ?