On 12/13/2011 11:22 AM, Igor Lvovsky wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: vdsm-devel-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:vdsm-devel- >> boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Dor Laor >> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:02 AM >> To: engine-de...@ovirt.org; vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org >> Subject: http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/Design/StablePCIAddresses >> >> Hi, >> >> I read the design here and I like to make sure that the future road map >> will expand beyond the current scope. >> >> The current design totally rely on libvirt and does not parse the >> content of the PCI addressing. That's really really basic. The user >> should be able to specify pci slot allocation of his devices through the >> gui. I guess you won't be able to do that w/ the current scheme. > > We know that the current design is not sufficient. This is exactly the > reason why I am working right now on new one that will give abilities to the > manager to change PCI addresses per device. But in any case we planning > that the first addresses allocation will be done by libvirt and vdsm will > return it to the manager. > I am not sure whether it will be accessible via GUI. Livnat?
Not sure we'll expose it in the UI/API for editing in the first version, more likely it will be included in a view-only mode and then extended for user manipulations. Anyway we are working on a more explicit API then a Blob, as Igor wrote. Livnat > >> >> Also, what about devices that can't be hot plug (like qxl)? You need to >> reveal this info to the user. Currently we have ability in the kvm bios >> (seabios) to automatically disable the host plug of some critical >> devices like the vga driver (qxl) and others. The user should be allowed >> to hot plug/unplug only allowed devices. >> >> You have to make your design work w/ pci bridges since we'll add it to >> qemu and once there is such VM (management should enable the bridge) >> there will be more pci devices available to it. >> >> Regards, >> Dor >> _______________________________________________ >> vdsm-devel mailing list >> vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > engine-de...@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel _______________________________________________ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
