Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/15/2009 03:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > We should just tell the user which slots are open.
> >   
> > This might be tricky if the config is passed in with the command line
> > flags.
> >    
>
> qemu -show-available-pci-slots

Why does the user care?

Let QEMU allocate the PCI slot, then query it to see what slot it 
assigned and remember that.

It's not a good idea to have management applications attempt to do PCI 
slot allocation.  For instance, one day we may decide to make virtio 
devices multi-function.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori