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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/22] Refactor machine support
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:49:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522215625.2706941276008589258.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <332590591.2705881276008246310.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>

> The magic I'm preferring to is precisely things like pci="on".

Hmm, pci=on is magic indeed. :-)

> What I'm objecting to is making machine construction be controlled by an 
> arbitrary set of hardcoded parameters.
> My argument is that in the short term this parameterization provides limited 
> benefit, and longer term it's going to be obsolete and probably painful to 
> support.

Then it would be enough to have these options available internally for use
in the machine-core but not export them to the command-line.  If we only
aim at using management interfaces to use the interface we can be very
conservative and not export even things like default_drive.

Paolo

       reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <332590591.2705881276008246310.JavaMail.root@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2010-06-08 14:49 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-06-07 23:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/22] Refactor machine support Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08  3:12 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 10:24   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-08 14:30     ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 15:28       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 15:36         ` Paul Brook
2010-06-08 15:58           ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-08 16:15             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 21:05               ` Alexander Graf
2010-06-08 21:16                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 17:23             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09  2:11             ` Paul Brook
2010-06-09 13:55               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 14:30                 ` Paul Brook
2010-06-09 20:47                   ` Blue Swirl
2010-06-09 20:52                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 21:09                       ` Blue Swirl
2010-06-09 22:26                       ` Paul Brook

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