Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] hw/pc: set q35 as the default x86 machine

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:33:51PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 June 2018 at 18:18, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:14:31PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >> > Sure if someone does that, we'll have no choice, but as long as 'pc' is
> >> > shipped we shouldn't gratuitously break apps by changing the default.
> >>
> >> Right.  I just want to make sure "omitting the machine-type may
> >> stop working in the future" is documented somehow.
> >
> > I still think we should just add links to the qemu binary and
> > use ARGV to detect the machine type.
> >
> > qemu-pc-i386
> > qemu-q35-x86_64
> 
> Do you really want 60 different qemu-something-arm symlinks?

Absolutely not !

Regards,
Daniel
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