Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add a pc-0.11 machine type and make the pc type an alias

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hey,

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:02 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> The pc-0.11 type allows users of qemu-0.11 to use a machine type which
> they know will remain compatible when the upgrade to qemu-0.12.
> 
> Management tools may choose to canonicalize the 'pc' machine type to
> 'pc-0.11' so that if the 'pc' alias changes target in future versions
> of qemu, the machine type used will remain compatible.

By the way, I think it would make sense to pull this into stable-0.11
before the 0.11 release.

It's a fairly minor code change which means users can start using the
pc-0.11 machine type now so that, without doing anything in future, they
can avoid compat issues when they update to qemu-0.12.

Cheers,
Mark.