On 09/16/2011 05:12 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 15.09.2011 16:11, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
An example is a NIC with nvram that stores a mac address. In QOM, the guest
could change the mac address, then a user could hot unplug the device, and then
hot plug the device into a different PCI slot. The path is now different but
the device name has not change.
Maybe then the device name shouldn't default to something that looks
like a path but rather something like "#foo-1" where "foo" is a device
name and "1" a counter for devices of the same type (I'm reusing Jan's #
notation in order to avoid clashes with user specified names, but that's
a detail). I guess a name like that would actually be relatively
convenient to use from a user interface like HMP.
Yeah, I was thinking about this myself yesterday. To avoid confusion, we could
just make the names more or less random. That would ensure that no one used
them directly.
I would expect people to use paths in HMP. A nice advantage of paths is that
you can autocomplete them in HMP.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Kevin
