On 25 September 2017 at 18:42, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 25.09.2017 17:26, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 25 September 2017 at 16:19, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Not sure whether this works for the virtio-xxx-device devices, >>> though, since they are marked as user_creatable = true currently... >> >> That's deliberate -- for the arm boards with virtio-mmio >> the board creates a bunch of virtio-mmio transports and the >> virtio-foo-device can be user created to plug into those. > > Yes, I know ... I'm just wondering whether the virtio-xxx-device devices > should be non-user_creatable on the non-ARM targets, since they > apparently can't be used with "-device" there...?
You should be able to on the command line for x86 do something like -device virtio-pci,... -device virtio-foo-device,... to manually create the pci transport and the backend. thanks -- PMM
