Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] storing machine data in qcow images?

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:44:02PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote:
> Because it's a hack, right.  Storing binary data in a qcow2 file,
> completely ignoring it in qemu (and being completely unusable to any
> potential other users of the qcow2 format[1]) and only interpreting it
> somewhere up the stack is a hack.

It's just a first step and it ensures compatibility with old QEMU
versions. But down the road I think we will start warning
user if the machine type does not match, and possibly even
get the type from there if user didn't supply it.

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MST