Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Plan for moving forward with QOM

[Anthony Liguori]

On 09/16/2011 05:12 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 15.09.2011 16:11, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > An example is a NIC with nvram that stores a mac address.  In QOM, the guest
> > could change the mac address, then a user could hot unplug the device, and then
> > hot plug the device into a different PCI slot.  The path is now different but
> > the device name has not change.
>
> Maybe then the device name shouldn't default to something that looks
> like a path but rather something like "#foo-1" where "foo" is a device
> name and "1" a counter for devices of the same type (I'm reusing Jan's #
> notation in order to avoid clashes with user specified names, but that's
> a detail). I guess a name like that would actually be relatively
> convenient to use from a user interface like HMP.

Yeah, I was thinking about this myself yesterday.  To avoid confusion, we could 
just make the names more or less random.  That would ensure that no one used 
them directly.

I would expect people to use paths in HMP.  A nice advantage of paths is that 
you can autocomplete them in HMP.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin