Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 11/25] conf: Add <disk model='virtio-{non-}transitional'/>
On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 16:00 +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:32:39PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
[...]
> + <dt><code>model</code></dt>
> + <dd>
> + Indicates the emulated device model of the disk. Typically
> + this is indicated solely by the <code>bus</code> property
but
> + for <code>bus</code> "virtio" the model can be
specified further
> + with "virtio-transitional",
"virtio-non-transitional", or
> + "virtio" which matches the old behavior. These settings are
> + only applicable when using controller bus type "pci".
> + <span class="since">Since 5.1.0</span>
> + </dd>
It would be probably good idea to explain this a little bit more and
possibly add a reference/link to virtio specification.
Yeah, that sounds like a very good idea. We will probably want to
make it its own section, too, so that we can link to it from each
of the devices that support (non-)transitional VirtIO.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization