Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] ahci: add -drive support

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:52:32AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > If -hda has the semantics of "create an IDE device", then no, we can't 
> > change it. It doesn't however. IIRC on -M pseries -hda creates SCSI 
> > devices. On s390 -hda creates virtio devices. So if on -M q35 -hda would 
> > create if=ahci, I don't see how that breaks the CLI.
> 
> It doesn't per se, that is as long as you need to explicitly specify -M
> q35. But then changing the default machine from the existing pc to q35
> would break the command line.
> 
Would break it how?

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                        Gleb.