Re: Adding pcie-root-port devices via QMP apparently isn't possible

2021-05-18 Thread Thomas Parrott
Thanks for confirming Marcel. Now we understand that -readconfig isn't going away we can continue to preallocate the pcie-root-ports via the config file as you suggest. Thanks Tom On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 15:39, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > On Tue, May 18, 2021

Re: Fwd: Adding devices via QMP's device_add don't have their bootindex setting respected

2021-05-18 Thread Thomas Parrott
roken, and had understood that config file support was being removed, which is why we were focussing on switching to QMP. We'll get some more details on what isn't working with LXD and QEMU 6.0 shortly. Thanks Tom On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 13:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 18/05/21 14:2

Re: Adding pcie-root-port devices via QMP apparently isn't possible

2021-05-18 Thread Thomas Parrott
I meant to also add that it has been suggested we could discuss this further on one of the forthcoming weekly community calls. Thanks Tom On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 13:28, Thomas Parrott wrote: > Due to QEMU moving towards a QMP configuration mechanism and away from > config file support, t

Adding pcie-root-port devices via QMP apparently isn't possible

2021-05-18 Thread Thomas Parrott
Due to QEMU moving towards a QMP configuration mechanism and away from config file support, the LXD team are currently in the process of migrating to using QMP to add devices to VMs (so that we can support the use of QEMU 6.0). Currently we are using the `-S` flag to freeze CPU at startup, then us

Adding devices via QMP's device_add don't have their bootindex setting respected

2021-05-18 Thread Thomas Parrott
Due to QEMU moving towards a QMP configuration mechanism and away from config file support, the LXD team are currently in the process of migrating to using QMP to add devices to VMs (so that we can support the use of QEMU 6.0). Currently we are using the `-S` flag to freeze CPU at startup, then us