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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxl: change default QEMU machine to
	pc-i440fx-1.6
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:50:51 +0200
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Il 28/05/2014 18:41, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto:
> However it would still place xen-platform at slot 3 instead of slot 2 if
> soundhw is specified. It seems to me that there is not a perfect
> solution to this problem.  We can either:
>
> - Switch to -machine pc-i440fx-1.6 by default and use consistently the
> same -machine option no matter the value of xen_platform_pci. Nice, but
> we break compatibility with existing guests if soundhw is specified.
>
> - Switch to -machine pc-i440fx-1.6 only when xen_platform_pci=0 is
> specified and keep xenfv if xen_platform_pci=1. We still break
> compatibility when soundhw is specified together with xen_platform_pci=0.

- change the implementation of the soundhw option to use -device instead.

Paolo