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Certain PCI buses don't support hotplug, and when automatically assigning PCI addresses for devices, libvirt is very conservative in its assumptions about whether or not a device will need to be hotplugged/unplugged in the future. But if the user manually assigns an address, they likely are aware of any hotplug requirements of the device (or at least they should be). In short, after this patch, automatically PCI address assignment will assume that the device must be plugged in to a hot-pluggable slot, but manually assignment can place the device in any bus that is compatible, regardless of whether or not it supports hotplug. If the user makes a mistake and plugs the device into a bus that doesn't support hotplug, then later tries to do a hot-unplug, qemu will give an appropriate error. (in the future we may want to add a "hotpluggable" attribute to all devices, with default being "yes" for autoassign, and "no" for manual assign).
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>