Re: [PATCH] scripts: add a script to list virtio devices in a system

From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: add a script to list virtio devices in a system
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 09:44:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b402ffd8-4f89-1b6c-f01d-67b4b31923d5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8d6BQGHWUPp2cu-8eqYpXh5S6uV8va2A0KSq=f+9aWaw@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/05/2021 11:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 20:36, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add "lsvirtio" that lists all virtio devices in a system
>> the same way lspci does for the PCI cards.
> 
> This is cool, but it's not really QEMU specific -- it should
> work on any Linux guest running on some hypervisor or hardware
> that exposes virtio devices, right? So I'm not sure it really
> belongs in QEMU's source tree...
> 
> If you're a distro packager you'd probably want to have this be in its
> own package or at least not in the same package as the QEMU binaries,
> for instance, because this lives in the guest, not the host.
> 

Yes, I agree with that, but if it is in its own package I think it will never reach user
because no one will find it. I can try to push this into util-linux where we can find
tools like lscpu, lsblk ... but the competencies to review the code are in qemu-devel ML
not in util-linux ML.

Thanks,
Laurent