RE: [virtio-dev] Dynamic assignment of vhost-user to a VM

["Avi Cohen (A)" <avi.cohen@huawei.com>]

Thank you Paolo
Avi 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:pbonzini@redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, 09 April, 2018 12:43 PM
> To: Avi Cohen (A); virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Dynamic assignment of vhost-user to a VM
> 
> On 09/04/2018 08:33, Avi Cohen (A) wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > Is it  possible to assign a vhost-user frontend to a VM *after* the VM was
> launched ?
> > Best Regards
> > Avi
> 
> If you're referring to QEMU then yes, you can dynamically create all of
> character devices (to connect to the vhost-user server), network devices (to
> create a vhost-user client) and NICs (that peer with the vhost-user server).
> 
> If you're using libvirt to run QEMU, you can in fact invoke a single "virsh attach-
> device" command to handle all three steps.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo