Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI hotplug disable

[Nikolai Zhubr]

Hello again,

Ok, actually kvm-Build-an-additional-bios-without-hotplug-support.patch 
from redhat did the trick. (I just somehow screwed it initially)

Still, some more user-friendly way would be nice...

Regards,
Nikolai

21.05.2011 20:11, I wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> is there some simple way to disable pci hotplug support in qemu-kvm (via
> some command-line options or alike)?
>
> Problem is, my guest windows xp is thinking that it could attempt to
> remove Intel 82371SB, Cirrus Logic 5446, and other pci devices, and
> enumerates them all under "Safe remove" which is somewhat annoying and
> maybe risky. I'm using qemu-kvm 0.12.3 as per opensuse 11.3.
>
> I've searched for a whole day and only found this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579737
> Ok, I've built bios-nohotplug.bin (using
> kvm-Build-an-additional-bios-without-hotplug-support.patch from redhat's
> .srpm, then replacing standard bios.bin) but it didn't seem to make any
> difference.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thanks,
> Nikolai