[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] RFC decoupling VM NIC provisioning fromVM NIC connection to backend networks

[Markus Armbruster]

"Christian Benvenuti (benve)" <benve at cisco.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: qemu-devel-bounces+benve=cisco.com at nongnu.org
> [mailto:qemu-devel-
>> bounces+benve=cisco.com at nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Markus Armbruster
>> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 7:05 AM
>> To: Daniel P. Berrange
>> Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com; David Wang (dwang2); Ram Durairaj
>> (radurair); qemu-devel at nongnu.org; Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
>> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] RFC decoupling VM NIC provisioning
>> fromVM NIC connection to backend networks
>> 
>> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> writes:
[...]
>> > The problem is 4 - AFAICT we can't connect the existing NIC upto the
>> newly
>> > hotplugged netdev, since we can't update the 'netdev' property in
> the
>> NIC
>> > device.
>> 
>> Yes, that's the missing piece.
>
> Can we go ahead and add this missing piece to QEMU?
> Is there any concern on the QEMU side?

Just need someone to contribute the code.

I believe it could be done within Anthony's QOM project.  As I wrote:
Please work with Anthony to get this use case covered in QOM.

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