Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: Switch to q35 as the default machine type

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 09:08:52AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > Other heretic question: Should we maybe get rid of the default machine type
> > for *all* targets? ... so that we do not continue to run into this issue
> > again and again and again...
> 
> /me votes "yes".
> 
> take care,
>   Gerd

Well originally qemu tried to be friendly and to just create
a reasonable machine when given a disk, to the point where
it would even set up some networking by default.

And I think it's not a bad idea, forcing everyone to specify a bunch of
boilerplate does not really result in people researching which machine
type is good for them, people instead just copy paste from a random
website.

So maybe we can detect that basic usage somehow (I only have some
vague ideas) and then set a bunch of defaults that we consider
best?

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MST