On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:34:44PM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: > In libvirt 0.6.1, if you create a domain description of type 'kvm' > without an arch set on an x86-64 host, you would get an i686 qemu guest > rather than the expected x86-64 kvm guest. > > This is because virCapabilitiesDefaultGuestArch doesn't take the domain > type into consideration, so it just returned the first hvm architecutre > that has been registered, which is i686. > > After applying Dan P's patch, > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00281.html, > > I now get a i686 kvm guest, since kvm now can do i686 guests from > libvirt. This is certainly an improvement, but I think a more reasonable > default is to attempt to match the host's architecture. > > This patch makes virCapabilitiesDefaultGuestArch also check the domain > type, and also gives preference to a guest architecture that matches the > host's architecture. ACK, this is good - we definitely want to match native arch by default if not specified otherwise. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list