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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
