There is this class of PCI devices that act like disks: NVMe.
Therefore, they are both PCI devices and disks. While we already
have <hostdev/> (and can assign a NVMe device to a domain
successfully) we don't have disk representation. There are three
problems with PCI assignment in case of a NVMe device:
1) domains with <hostdev/> can't be migrated
2) NVMe device is assigned whole, there's no way to assign only a
namespace
3) Because hypervisors see <hostdev/> they don't put block layer
on top of it - users don't get all the fancy features like
snapshots
NVMe namespaces are way of splitting one continuous NVDIMM memory
into smaller ones, effectively creating smaller NVMe-s (which can
then be partitioned, LVMed, etc.)
Because of all of this the following XML was chosen to model a
NVMe device: