On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:53:09AM +0530, Priyanka Ranjan wrote:
> Hello Richard,
> One more question, you mentioned that "hot plugging" is supported from *CentOS
> 7 *and gave me a link. That link says
>
>  "In libguestfs ≥ 1.20, you may add drives and remove after calling
> "guestfs_launch" <http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_launch>.
> There are some restrictions, see below. This is called*hotplugging*."
>
> When I executed "sudo yum install libguestfs-tools" on CentOS 6.5, it
> installed libguestfs 1.20.11. So if we fix the current qemu issue  then can
> we use "hotplugging" in CentOS 6.5? Do you see some other issues? Do you
> recommend CentOS 7 only for the "hotplugging"?

Hotplugging requires libvirt, and that only works in CentOS >= 7.

Rich.

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