58ba0f6a3d
qemu added support for i440fx specific global boolean flag
PIIX4_PM.acpi-pci-hotplug-with-bridge-support
around version 2.1. This flag is enabled by default. When disabled, it
turns off acpi pci hotplug for cold plugged pci bridges in i440fx
machine types.
Very recently, in qemu version 6.1, the same global option was also
added for q35 machine types as well.
ICH9-LPC.acpi-pci-hotplug-with-bridge-support
This option turns on or off acpi based hotplug for cold plugged pcie
bridges like pcie root ports. This flag is also enabled by
default. Please refer to the following qemu changes:
c0e427d6eb5fef ("hw/acpi/ich9: Enable ACPI PCI hot-plug")
17858a16950860 ("hw/acpi/ich9: Set ACPI PCI hot-plug as default on Q35")
This patch adds the corresponding qemu capabilities in libvirt. For
i440fx, the capability is detected as
QEMU_CAPS_PIIX_ACPI_HOTPLUG_BRIDGE. For q35, the capability is
detected as QEMU_CAPS_ICH9_ACPI_HOTPLUG_BRIDGE.
Please note that the test specific qemu capabilities .replies files
has already been updated as a part of regular refreshing them when a
new qemu version is released. Hence, no updates to those files are
required.
Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
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