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docs: Document pcie-root requirement for q35 guests
authorAndrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:37:17 +0000 (17:37 +0100)
committerAndrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:35:48 +0000 (09:35 +0100)
When you add a bunch of pcie-root-port controllers to a q35 guest
in order to have hotplug capabilities, you also need to make sure
you're adding the pcie-root controller at the same time or you
will get an error. Document this fact.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
docs/pci-hotplug.html.in

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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     </p>
 
 <pre>
+&lt;controller type='pci' model='pcie-root'/&gt;
 &lt;controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/&gt;
 &lt;controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/&gt;
 &lt;controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/&gt;</pre>
       if you expect to hotplug up to three PCI Express devices,
       either emulated or assigned from the host. That's all the
       information you need to provide: libvirt will fill in the
-      remaining details automatically.
+      remaining details automatically. Note that you need to add
+      the <code>pcie-root</code> controller along with the
+      <code>pcie-root-port</code> controllers or you will get an
+      error.
     </p>
     <p>
       Note that if you're adding PCI controllers to a guest and at