Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Configuration vs. compat hints

[Markus Armbruster]

Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:

> (adding cc)
>
> On 06/15/2009 02:35 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Not really.  QEMU gives just the host bridge a fixed slot[*].  All the
>> other slots are available.
>>    
>
> qemu needs to export these two bits of information: the first free
> slot and the number of slots.
>
> More generally, which slots are open.  We can assume 1:31, but that's
> unlovely.

Point.

>> The real problem is devices that get implicitly added, like the SCSI
>> controller.  Those devices get their slots auto-assigned, which can
>> interfere with slot numbers chosen by the user.  We need a way to avoid
>> that, as you suggested elsewhere in this thread.
>>    
>
> Paul/Anthony, can we have -vga pci_addr=, -usb-controller pci_addr=,
> and -drive pci_addr= (and later, -disk-controller)?  Stalling while
> waiting for the ultimate config file is only generating pain and
> out-of-tree patches.

Yup.

I got bit-rotten patches for pci_addr=, and I can unrot them if they're
wanted.

> (I'd be quite happy constructing the entire machine config on the
> command line, but I realize it's just me)

Ha, .bash_history as config file...