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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] hw/pc: set q35 as the default x86
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To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, rth@twiddle.net, libvir-list@redhat.com

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:14:31PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > Sure if someone does that, we'll have no choice, but as long as 'pc' is
> > shipped we shouldn't gratuitously break apps by changing the default.
> 
> Right.  I just want to make sure "omitting the machine-type may
> stop working in the future" is documented somehow.

I still think we should just add links to the qemu binary and
use ARGV to detect the machine type.

qemu-pc-i386
qemu-q35-x86_64

etc.

> -- 
> Eduardo