From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTyRz-0006hC-EK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTyRv-0006gz-SF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40359 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTyRv-0006gw-LO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:07 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:44344) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTyRv-0005sR-8S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:07 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTyRt-00056j-G6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:05 -0400 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6NDZ3KX027822 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:03 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n6NDZ2kx010155 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:03 -0400 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6NDZ0lk025922 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:35:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add a pc-0.11 machine type and make the pc type an alias From: Mark McLoughlin In-Reply-To: <1248253371-6673-2-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> References: <1248253336.2867.41.camel@blaa> <1248253371-6673-2-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:34:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1248356076.3067.33.camel@blaa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: Mark McLoughlin List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hey, On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:02 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > The pc-0.11 type allows users of qemu-0.11 to use a machine type which > they know will remain compatible when the upgrade to qemu-0.12. > > Management tools may choose to canonicalize the 'pc' machine type to > 'pc-0.11' so that if the 'pc' alias changes target in future versions > of qemu, the machine type used will remain compatible. By the way, I think it would make sense to pull this into stable-0.11 before the 0.11 release. It's a fairly minor code change which means users can start using the pc-0.11 machine type now so that, without doing anything in future, they can avoid compat issues when they update to qemu-0.12. Cheers, Mark.