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What the name of the property is >> doesn't matter. > > What's an internal property? Properties are there to make some field of an > object introspectable and settable from command line and QEMU monitor or > other external interfaces. If that's not needed for something why is it > defined as a property in the first place and not just e.g. C accessor > functions as part of the device's interface instead? I think this may be > overusing QOM for things that may not need it and adding complexity where > not needed. Maybe some things could easily be simplified indeed, but for some others, it's currently the way it's deeply rooted in the logic of QEMU. Have a look at the hw_compat arrays in hw/core/machine.c ... it all goes via properties, so there is certainly no easy and quick solution for this. Thomas