[Libguestfs] Issue with libguestfs-test-tool on a guest hosted on VMWare ESXi

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 03:49:24PM +0000, Tanmoy Sinha wrote:
> Thanks will write to VMWare forums.
> 
> Btw, is there a way I can change the qemu default machine type? I mean when
> I specify *-machine pc *it picks up pc-i440fx-2.8 by default.

qemu maps aliases like 'pc' to some emulated machine type.  You
can see the mapping by doing:

  $ qemu-system-x86_64 -machine \?

> Or is it tied to the underlying host hardware?

No, it's something that qemu emulates and is nothing to do with
the host hardware.

Rich.

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