On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:41:28PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

The PCI slot 1 must be reserved at all times, since PIIX3 is always present, even if no IDE device is in use for guest disks

* src/qemu/qemu_conf.c: Always reserve slot 1 for PIIX3 --- src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c index 23e418b..6ce9c9e 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c @@ -2284,6 +2284,10 @@ qemuAssignDevicePCISlots(virDomainDefPtr def, qemuDomainPCIAddressSetPtr addrs) /* PIIX3 (ISA bridge, IDE controller, something else unknown, USB controller) * hardcoded slot=1, multifunction device */ + if (qemuDomainPCIAddressReserveSlot(addrs, 1) < 0) + goto error; + + /* Verify that first IDE controller (if any) is on the PIIX3, fn 1 */ for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers ; i++) { /* First IDE controller lives on the PIIX3 at slot=1, function=1 */ if (def->controllers[i]->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_IDE && @@ -2303,8 +2307,6 @@ qemuAssignDevicePCISlots(virDomainDefPtr def, qemuDomainPCIAddressSetPtr addrs) def->controllers[i]->info.addr.pci.bus = 0; def->controllers[i]->info.addr.pci.slot = 1; def->controllers[i]->info.addr.pci.function = 1; - if (qemuDomainPCIAddressReserveSlot(addrs, 1) < 0) - goto error; } } }

ACK, Are we documenting the statically allocated slots ? Maybe this should go somewhere in http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html , since this shows up to the user in the end (well if they look) and we ought to garantee those. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/