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According to API documentation virDomain{At,De}tachDevice calls are
supposed to only work on active guests for device hotplug. For anything
beyond that, their *Flags variants have to be used.
Despite the variant which was acked on libvirt mailing list
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-January/msg00385.html)
commit ed9c14a7ef86d7a45a6d57cbfee5410fca428633 (by Jim Fehlig)
introduced automagic behavior of these API calls for xen driver. Since
January, these calls always change persistent configuration of a guest
and if the guest is currently active, they also hot(un)plug the device.
That change didn't follow API documentation and also broke device
hot(un)plug for older xend implementations which do not support changing
persistent configuration of a guest and hot(un)plugging in one step.
This patch should not break anything for active guests. On the other
hand, changing inactive guests is not supported any more.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>