[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] VMM - Show host device information bits

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Oct 27 13:57:16 UTC 2009


On 10/27/2009 02:44 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
> On 10/27/2009 07:26 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>> On 10/27/2009 07:24 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2009 05:33 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>> On 10/26/2009 12:29 PM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>>>>> On 10/26/2009 05:20 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/26/2009 10:59 AM, Michal Novotny wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> this is new version of host device information bits, tested with PCI
>>>>>>> devices as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Michal
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we should support USB devices by bus/addr and PCI devices 
>>>>>> before
>>>>>> pushing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Well, I didn't find it in devs (get_devices()) so that I can't 
>>>>> check how
>>>>> to compare it using bus/addr. I've been using testdriver.xml you wrote
>>>>> about but get_devices() returns empty list and I can't make PCI
>>>>> passthrough working right on my machine.
>>>> Make sure you pull down the updated testdriver, and are using libvirt
>>>> 0.7.2. You should see results from get_devices.
>>> Oh, although I've been using updated testdriver from yesterday (I've 
>>> downloaded it yesterday) I was using libvirt 0.7.0 so there were no 
>>> corresponding results for that. I'm pulling down the latest libvirt 
>>> to install it. Thanks for information
> Well, I have downloaded and installed newest libvirt from git now, 
> downloaded the testdriver.xml file from location you gave me and I also 
> appended:
> 
>   devs = self.vm.get_connection().get_devices( typ, None )
>          logging.debug("DEVS: %s" % devs)
> 
> to virtManager/details.py file but it's not working, it keeps showing 
> empty devices for this test driver:
> 
> [Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:41:28 virt-manager 31507] DEBUG (details:1190) DEVS: []
> 
> How can I make it working for testdriver ? I don't know how to make PCI 
> passthrough working to be able to check bus/addr ...
> 
> Michal
> 

Does 'virsh --connect test:///path/to/testdriver.xml nodedev-list
--tree' show output? If not, the updated libvirt probably wasn't
installed correctly.

I usually configure with

./configure --enable-compile-warnings=error --prefix=/usr
--localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib64

- Cole




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