On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:02:51PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote: > On 2013年05月21日 16:45, Peter Maydell wrote: > >On 21 May 2013 09:39, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Libvirt has always had support for specifying what machine type to use. > >>This discussion is simply about what machine type to default to, if the > >>user hasn't explicitly asked for one. > >> > >>QEMU has the notion of a default machine for each target, and that is > >>what libvirt uses if the user hasn't specified a machine. It is not > >>libvirt's job to override QEMU's notion of the default machine here, > >Agreed; thanks for the clarification. > > > >>so if the 'mac99' machine type isn't suitable as the default either > >>QEMU needs to change that for the ppc target, or the user needs to > >>explicitly specify their desired machine type. > >OK, that makes sense. So is the problem here just configuration > >or is it the next layer above libvirt not being configurable? > > Currently, the next layer above libvirt is not configurable. > It is dependent on this default setting. Users also expect > to start one VM successfully by default. What is the application above libvirt you are using ? It clearly needs to be fixed if it is to use non-x86 archs successfully. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list