Re: [libvirt] attach-device error: XML error: unknown device type

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:54:51AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/03/2013 07:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> What am I doing wrong with the virsh attach-device command or XML? >> >> There is no support for hotplug of any character device (that >> covers serial, parallel, console, channnel elements in the XML) > > Although that's about to change in libvirt 1.1.1: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-July/msg00125.html Yes & no. Yes, libvirt will support hotplug, but that's only actually going to work for devices which are PCI based. eg virtio-serial and virtio-console. You can't hotplug <serial> or <paralle> devices which use the ISA bus, which is what Chris was trying todo here. Daniel