Re: [Engine-devel] Question about Disk Hotplug

On Tue 10 Sep 2013 09:20:32 PM IDT, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We proposed some changes in how to query if an operating system > supports hotplug, then Itamar suggested that disk hotplugging and NIC > hotplugging could be separated from each other. While it is pretty > clear how to put info about NIC hotplugging in the osinfo, here are a > few issues when trying to introduce the same concept for disk > hotplugging. > > Some disk interfaces do not support hotplugging at all (like IDE), > some of them support it in the x86_64, but not in the ppc64 > architecture (like the VirtIO blk) and others support it in both > architectures (like VirtIO SCSI). There is also a ppc64 specific > controller called SPAPR VSCSI, which supports it too. > > So, how do you propose a syntax to cover all these cases? > > I thought about something along the lines of: > > os.{id}.devices.disk.hotpluggableInterfaces = VirtIO_SCSI, VirtIO > > Thanks, > > Leonardo Bianconi/Vitor de Lima/Gustavo Pedrosa > "storage" is a better term than "disk" so:

os.{id}.devices.storage... maybe in the future we may expand the metadata model to hold devices and hook it to an OS device.{id}.... os.{id}.devices={deviceId} just a thought, its unnecessary for now. _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel