On 03.01.2012 14:39, Kees van Reeuwijk wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, happy new year! > > I am interested in the hot plugging facilities of libvirt, in particular > in what qemu calls 'hot add' of network interface cards. (And also the > reverse: hot unplugging/removing of NICs.) > > I think I am overlooking something, but so far the best I have been able > to find is: > > http://libvirt.org/sources/virshcmdref/html/ > > and it is not entirely clear to me what the relevant virsh commands are. > The most obvious choice seems to be the iface-* commands such as > > http://libvirt.org/sources/virshcmdref/html/sect-iface-define.html > > but these seem to be about physical rather than virtual network > interfaces, and the documentation `needs to be written' anyway, and from > the copyright notice the manual seems to be somewhat outdated by now. > > Can you give me a little help with this? Is such hot plug/add > functionality supported by libvirt in the first place? Is there some > kind of overview document about this? What is the most authoritative > documentation of this functionality? Is there a Java or C API to access > this functionality? > > Thank you for any help you can give me, > I think virsh attach-interface / detach-interface is what you are looking for. Another option is to write a little XML snippet and virsh attach-device it.