2014-11-07 14:28, Nicolas Pernas Maradei: > Thanks for your reply. The -w option is the same as --pci-whitelist > mentioned in my first email. Declaring a virtual device with --vdev > means that I want to use it but there doesn't seem to be a way to say > that I want to use only that device. Clearly the white list option is > the way to specify this but if virtual devices are excluded from > -w/--pci-whitelist you can't only white list the virtual devices. > > I want to be able to have the same command line arguments across several > systems under test without having to know where the physical devices are > (to black list them). > > My issue is not that I don't want to black list the physical devices > it's just that I want to white list the virtual ones. I don't see why > that option is not available.
OK, now I better understand your need. I think that your use case was simply forgotten when designing the new behaviour. Could you prepare a patch for this need? Or maybe you could workaround with a script based on lspci to blacklist all network devices? -- Thomas
