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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Add machine type pc-1.0-qemu-kvm for
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Il 29/07/2014 15:03, Serge E. Hallyn ha scritto:
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> And from there I think the thing to do will be to introduce a transient
> alternate package that has the pc-1.0 alias pointing ot pc-1.0-qemu-kvm

This should be done in the main package, too.

> and depends on the legacy pxe rom.

If you can make the pxe-virtio.rom file 64k or less, then that would be
a good idea for 14.04 in general.  Newer machine types use
efi-virtio.rom, so you won't break "-M pc" migration.

Paolo