On 25 September 2017 at 18:51, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:45:15PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> 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. > > virtio-pci is abstract, so this is not possible. (The same > applies to virtio-ccw-device).
Did I use the wrong device name? I meant the transport layer device (which virtio-pci-blk creates along with virtio-blk-device internally), not the abstract device that's a base class for the pci devices. thanks -- PMM