libvirt users - May 2021 - How to hot plugin a new vhost-user-blk-pci device to running VM?

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On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 15:25:23 +0800, ??? wrote:
>    Hi Guy,
> 
>    Does  anyone clear how to hot plugin a new vhost-user-blk-pci device to
a
>    running VM?
> 
>    Before staring vm , I pass the disk through QEMU command line  like
below.
> 
>    <qemu:commandline>
>     <qemu:arg value='-object'/>
>     <qemu:arg
>   
value='memory-backend-file,id=mem0,size=4G,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='-numa'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='node,memdev=mem0'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='-chardev'/>
>     <qemu:arg
>   
value='socket,id=spdk_vhost_blk721ea46a-b306-11eb-a280-525400a98761,path=/var/tmp/vhost.721ea46a-b306-11eb-a280-525400a98761,reconnect=1'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
>     <qemu:arg
>   
value='vhost-user-blk-pci,chardev=spdk_vhost_blk721ea46a-b306-11eb-a280-525400a98761,bootindex=1,num-queues=4'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='-chardev'/>
>     <qemu:arg
>   
value='socket,id=spdk_vhost_blk2f699c58-d222-4629-9fdc-400c3aadc55e,path=/var/tmp/vhost.2f699c58-d222-4629-9fdc-400c3aadc55e,reconnect=1'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='-device'/>
>     <qemu:arg
>   
value='vhost-user-blk-pci,chardev=spdk_vhost_blk2f699c58-d222-4629-9fdc-400c3aadc55e,num-queues=4'/>
>    </qemu:commandline>
> 
>    But I don**t know how to live add a vhost-user-blk-pci device on running
>    VM even with calling attachDevice API now.
You need to use the proper and supported way to use vhost-user-blk:

  <disk type='vhostuser' device='disk'>
    <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
    <source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost-blk.sock'>
      <reconnect enabled='yes' timeout='10'/>
    </source>
    <target dev='vdf' bus='virtio'/>
  </disk>

That works also with attachDevice.

>    OS: redhat 7.4 Libvirt version: 3.4
This is obviously way too old for it. You'll need at least libvirt-7.1
for that.