[libvirt] [PATCH] Allow off-line removal of devices via xend

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:42:10PM -0800, john.levon at sun.com wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User john.levon at sun.com
> # Date 1233806617 28800
> # Node ID 507c2058c5f3c37894c573c4559eab58c5b52d7d
> # Parent  0b9d8336e5e089b19ac8381fdc77eadc72ef9eb7
> Allow off-line removal of devices via xend
> 
> We must avoid xenstore if the domain isn't running. For disks, this
> works in all xend versions; for NICs, however, this requires a change in
> netif.py to allow matching by MAC address. Preferring the device ID but
> falling back to the device ref works best with all versions of xend.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon at sun.com>

ACK to the disk side of things, but I'd like to see upstream xen-devel
accept the XenD changes for MAC address matching, before we make the
network changes to libvirt.

Regards,
Daniel
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