Re: [Qemu-devel] libvirt default machine-type guarantees? (was Re: [PATCH RFC] hw/pc: set q35 as the default x86 machine)

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:12:32PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> eg old OS versions that only work with PC, or more commonly pre-existing
> cloud disk images that were built against PC can't be assumed to just
> work against q35, even if the OS in the image supports it.

I don't understand that part - when using libvirt domain xml records the
machine type used for the install, so it seems that installed images
won't be affected.

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MST