On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 15:28 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 03:54:06PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > I wonder if we shouldn't just drop the default machine type handling > > altogether at this point, though. > > That's impossible as it violates the back compatibility guarantee > and will certainly break applications In abstract terms, given that the whole point of this exercise is shielding our users from changes in QEMU, why wouldn't we go the whole way and take QEMU defaults out of the picture entirely? I just can't picture a scenario where ignoring the QEMU defaults would actually cause issues, since we're basically moving the defaults into libvirt with this commit... Can you describe such a scenario? -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list