Re: [PATCH] scripts: add a script to list virtio devices in a system

[Laurent Vivier]

On 11/05/2021 11:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 20:36, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add "lsvirtio" that lists all virtio devices in a system
>> the same way lspci does for the PCI cards.
> 
> This is cool, but it's not really QEMU specific -- it should
> work on any Linux guest running on some hypervisor or hardware
> that exposes virtio devices, right? So I'm not sure it really
> belongs in QEMU's source tree...
> 
> If you're a distro packager you'd probably want to have this be in its
> own package or at least not in the same package as the QEMU binaries,
> for instance, because this lives in the guest, not the host.
> 

Yes, I agree with that, but if it is in its own package I think it will never 
reach user
because no one will find it. I can try to push this into util-linux where we 
can find
tools like lscpu, lsblk ... but the competencies to review the code are in 
qemu-devel ML
not in util-linux ML.

Thanks,
Laurent