Re: [libvirt] [RFC] Interface for disk hotadd/remove

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:58:34PM +0200, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange > wrote: > > So the key to deciding how to deal with hotplug, is to first decide how > > to represent disk controllers in the domain XML. > > > > At boot time, if you list multip

Re: [libvirt] [RFC] Interface for disk hotadd/remove

2009-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Mauerer
Hi, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:54:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: >> I'm currently interested in implementing hard disk hot-add and -remove >> support >> for qemu (as opposed to controller-based hotplugging), and this brings up the

Re: [libvirt] [RFC] Interface for disk hotadd/remove

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:54:00PM +0200, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: > I'm currently interested in implementing hard disk hot-add and -remove support > for qemu (as opposed to controller-based hotplugging), and this brings up the > question how to best support this feature in libvirt. Many SCSI-Contro

[libvirt] [RFC] Interface for disk hotadd/remove

2009-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Mauerer
Hi, I'm currently interested in implementing hard disk hot-add and -remove support for qemu (as opposed to controller-based hotplugging), and this brings up the question how to best support this feature in libvirt. Many SCSI-Controllers in real machines, for instance, allow to add and remove disks