configure in the desired way, which is why per-device boot elements
(see <a href="#elementsDisks">disks</a>,
<a href="#elementsNICS">network interfaces</a>, and
- <a href="#elementsUSB">USB and PCI devices</a> sections below) were
+ <a href="#elementsHostDev">USB and PCI devices</a> sections below) were
introduced and they are the preferred way providing full control over
booting order. The <code>boot</code> element and per-device boot
elements are mutually exclusive. <span class="since">Since 0.1.3,
prefix <code>virNodeDevice</code>, which deal with management of
host devices that can be handed to guests via passthrough as
<hostdev> elements
- in <a href="formatdomain.html#elementsUSB">the domain XML</a>.
+ in <a href="formatdomain.html#elementsHostDev">the domain XML</a>.
These devices are represented as a hierarchy, where a device on
a bus has a parent of the bus controller device; the root of the
hierarchy is the node named "computer".