Re: [libvirt] Parse commandline for -device option
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:27:32AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/04/2014 03:07 AM, Hong-Hua.Yin(a)freescale.com wrote:
> Hi Maintainers,
>
> Currently libvirt could only parse commandline for several legacy devices.
> For example,
> -pcidevice: qemuParseCommandLinePCI()
> -usbdevice: qemuParseCommandLineUSB()
Yes, the domxml-from-native functionality is woefully under-maintained
for qemu. Patches are welcome.
> Is it complicated to add support to -device option in function
qemuParseCommandLine()?
> Do you have any thought or plan about it?
You're welcome to give it a shot to find out how easy or hard it will
be; it's just that few enough people are relying on it that no one has
moved it to the top of their priority list to fix it.
It probably isn't that hard - merely alot of tedious work - which is
why it hasn't been done. If you do want to work on it, don't feel you
need to implement everything - even just making a small start for a
particular type of device (eg host PCI devicecs), would be useful and
set a foundation for future work
Regards,
Daniel
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