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Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35? |
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Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:47:45 +0200 |
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On 11/07/2017 16:42, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Concerning QEMU, could we maybe simply emit a warning a la
>>>
>>> "you did not specify a machine type with the -M option, so you are
>>> currently running the the 'pc' machine type. Please note that
>>> future
>>> versions of QEMU might use the 'q35' machine type instead. If you
>>> require the 'pc' machine type for your setting, then please specify
>>> it with the -M option."
>> Warnings tend to get ignored until things are actually break, so I
>> don't think this helps much. I think simply not having a default
>> machine type (as already suggested elsewhere in this thread) is the
>> best way to deal with this.
> I would absolutely hate this. One of the nice things about qemu has
> always been that 'qemu disk.img' is enough to start a simple VM. You
> only need to touch any other options for things you care about. I
> wouldn't want to give this up.
I agree. Don't change anything, leave "-M pc" aside, and let libosinfo
pick q35 for newer guests.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/07/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Marcel Apfelbaum, 2017/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2017/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Thomas Huth, 2017/07/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Marcel Apfelbaum, 2017/07/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2017/07/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Kevin Wolf, 2017/07/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Marcel Apfelbaum, 2017/07/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/07/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Gerd Hoffmann, 2017/07/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Marcel Apfelbaum, 2017/07/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Kevin Wolf, 2017/07/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Eduardo Habkost, 2017/07/11
Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/07/05