On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:40:18PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > On a Monday in 2023, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > If an explicit machine type is not specified in the VM config, the qemu > > driver will select the first machine type in the list of machine types > > for the specified accelerator. See virQEMUCapsGetPreferredMachine > > > > https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/master/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c#L6133 > > > > On my test machines, this works reasonably well for x86_64 where the > > first machine type is pc-i440fx-7.1. But for aarch64, the first machine > > is integratorcp, which is not very useful with maxCpus=1 and other > > limitations. > > Is it possible to run such machine with libvirt? > > If not, we could say our default is faulty and pick a new one. Good point. If we can prove that it's not possible to define a working VM when using the default machine type (integratorcp for Arm and spike_v1.10 for RISC-V), I think we'd have a fairly solid argument in favor of changing our defaults. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
