From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVu9d-0006Sp-Am for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:37:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVu9a-0002Jh-8k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:37:17 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:48794 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVu9a-0002JI-34 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:37:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:37:08 +0100 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20180621073708.GB3615@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <23040757-b561-e0bf-a41d-38d3c44555ee@gmail.com> <20180605072746.v6xxabsbewiuw7ka@sirius.home.kraxel.org> <20180605084300.GF32286@redhat.com> <20180613180508.GD24764@localhost.localdomain> <20180614080948.GF6355@redhat.com> <20180615025056.GB7451@localhost.localdomain> <20180615090314.GA31552@redhat.com> <20180618171431.GK7451@localhost.localdomain> <20180618201612-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] hw/pc: set q35 as the default x86 machine List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Eduardo Habkost , Libvirt , QEMU Developers , Gerd Hoffmann , Paolo Bonzini , Richard Henderson On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:33:51PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 18 June 2018 at 18:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > 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 > > Do you really want 60 different qemu-something-arm symlinks? Absolutely not ! Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|