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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Allow machines to configure the
 QEMU_VERSION that's exposed via hardware
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 05-04-2012 11:48, Peter Maydell wrote:
> This kind of change is definitely wrong -- where we're reporting
> the QEMU version to the *user* we definitely don't want to introduce
> the possibility of lying about it.
> 
> (This is distinct from reporting the QEMU version to the *guest*
> via device manufacturer/version strings.)
> 
> -- PMM
> 

You're right, "qemu --version" should always report the actual software
version to the user. I'll fix this on the next patch.

-- 
Best regards,
Crístian.