Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> writes: > Am 15.10.2013 16:41, schrieb Kevin Wolf: >> having two IDE controllers using the same I/O ports won't work, >> obviously. So if you would allow -device or device-add for them, you'd >> need options to configure the ports at least. > > Or a new can_only_be_instantiated_once flag. :) > Or proper error handling to have it fail gracefully at least.
can_only_be_instantiated_once helps users only in special cases of the general resource conflict problem. Proper handling of resource conflicts helps them always.
