From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36551) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxF8-00079U-V2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:50:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxF4-0004i3-2s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:50:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45342) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVxF3-0004hW-Ja for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:50:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1500025824.28252.3.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:50:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170714015435-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1499847753-8513-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <20170713034755-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20170713152010.GS6020@localhost.localdomain> <20170714015435-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-1.2 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Eduardo Habkost Cc: Thomas Huth , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , Richard Henderson , Marcel Apfelbaum , Igor Mammedov Hi, > Removing the former might kind of work just this once on the > assumption > that we did not have real users back then, but fundamentally users > have > no safe way to upgrade machine types right now. It's stored in the > machine XML at install time and that's it, and reinstalling guests > is very painful. You can easily change it using "virsh edit $domain", and improving virt-manager to offer some UI for that should be possible too. cheers, Gerd