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

[Stefan de Konink <stefan konink de>]

Guido Günther wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:30:30AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> [..snip..] 
> > No fault of this patch, but this makes me ask the question: what exactly
> > are attachDevice and detachDevice supposed to do?
> >
> > In the qemu driver, it is entirely hotplug/hotunplug, and deliberately
> > fails on an inactive domain. This patch seems to add offline support
> We don't even persist the devices being hot{added,removed} into the
> domain xml so acting on inactive domains has no meaning or am I missing
> something?

When the domain is enabled, and you store it... you basically get that 
behavior.


Stefan