Hi, > > 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. Well, not really. There is no "qemu" any more, and there are other defaults like default memory size which need tweaks, so the minimum command line isn't that short any more and looks more like this: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1G disk.img cheers, Gerd -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list