From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47671) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ueiov-00027d-TK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:25:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ueiou-0006ZD-94 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:25:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ueiou-0006Z4-0D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 05:25:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:25:07 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20130521092507.GC31290@redhat.com> References: <519B2E24.40104@gmail.com> <20130521083953.GB31290@redhat.com> <519B383B.9010708@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <519B383B.9010708@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel][libvirt] Default machine type setting for ppc64 Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Li Zhang Cc: Peter Maydell , libvir-list@redhat.com, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , anthony@codemonkey.ws, Paul Mackerras , Pradipta Kumar Banerjee On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:02:51PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote: > On 2013=E5=B9=B405=E6=9C=8821=E6=97=A5 16:45, Peter Maydell wrote: > >On 21 May 2013 09:39, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>Libvirt has always had support for specifying what machine type to us= e. > >>This discussion is simply about what machine type to default to, if t= he > >>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? >=20 > 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 --=20 |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange= / :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.or= g :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr= / :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vn= c :|