Mark's patches added a attribute managed='yes|no' for PCI <hostdev> configuration. This allows the caller app to indicate who is responsible for attaching/detaching the PCI device from the host drivers. When using managed=yes, libvirt does it, while using managed=no, the someone else should do it - typically blacklist the devices in /etc/modprobe.conf Before launching a guest though the devices need to be reset. Mark made the reset operation conditional on managed=yes, which was not what I had intended. libvirtd should always reset the devices so they are in a sane state before booting, regardless of who manages the host driver binding. The forthcoming PCI passthrough suppor in the Xen driver will work in this way - we'll only support managed=no, but XenD will still always do the reset of devices I also add a comment to remind us that we should add validation that the PCI device is not still in use in the non-managed case. Daniel Index: src/qemu_conf.c =================================================================== RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/qemu_conf.c,v retrieving revision 1.132 diff -u -p -u -p -r1.132 qemu_conf.c --- src/qemu_conf.c 2 Mar 2009 16:40:31 -0000 1.132 +++ src/qemu_conf.c 2 Mar 2009 18:23:07 -0000 @@ -1411,7 +1411,9 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr } pciFreeDevice(conn, dev); - } + } /* else { + XXX validate that non-managed device isn't in use + } */ } } @@ -1421,8 +1423,7 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr virDomainHostdevDefPtr hostdev = vm->def->hostdevs[i]; pciDevice *dev; - if (!hostdev->managed || - hostdev->mode != VIR_DOMAIN_HOSTDEV_MODE_SUBSYS || + if (hostdev->mode != VIR_DOMAIN_HOSTDEV_MODE_SUBSYS || hostdev->source.subsys.type != VIR_DOMAIN_HOSTDEV_SUBSYS_TYPE_PCI) continue; -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|