On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:42:30AM +0800, Tashi Lu wrote:
Hi everyone,
I incidentally configured two IDE controller for my machine-1.2 VM(it
might be virsh attach-disk to blame), and I got the error message
"Only a single IDE controller is unsupported...". I can't understand
this error message, I think it means I HAVE to configure two or more
IDE controllers until I looked it up in the source.
At libvirt-1.2.22/src/qemu/qemu_command.c:
4916 case VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_IDE:
4917 /* Since we currently only support the integrated IDE controller
4918 * on 440fx, if we ever get to here, it's because some other
4919 * machinetype had an IDE controller specified, or a 440fx had
4920 * multiple ide controllers.
4921 */
4922 if (qemuDomainMachineIsI440FX(domainDef))
4923 virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
4924 _("Only a single IDE controller is
unsupported "
4925 "for this machine type"));
I didn't dig VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_IDE up, but reasoning from the
comment, I think this error message should be something like "More
than one IDE controllers is not supported for this machine type"
The following commit replaced "unsupported" by "supported" in the
error
message:
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=e4ab3b5d
commit e4ab3b5d38bfbaef3cfe9da07ffafca0904e69da
Author: Guido Günther <agx(a)sigxcpu.org>
CommitDate: 2015-11-23 09:39:29 +0100
qemu: handle more machines with a single builtin IDE controller
like I440FX by moving the condition into qemuDomainMachineHasBuiltinIDE
and adding more machines.
Reference:
http://bugs.debian.org/805189
git describe: v1.2.21-112-ge4ab3b5 contains: v1.3.0-rc1~91
It will be released in libvirt 1.3.0.
Jan