[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: ensure "pc" machine is always used as default if available

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2018-08-07 at 13:19 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 11:38:06AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > I wonder how to handle architectures where QEMU never declared a
> > default machine type, such as aarch64 and riscv64, though: I think
> > it would make sense to prefer the virt machine type there, but I'm
> > not entirely sure that wouldn't cause any breakages either...
> 
> Existing libvirt behaviour is that we'll pick the first reported machine
> type, so we have to preserve that.

Right, makes sense.

I guess with aarch64/virt first and x86_64/q35 now it won't take
too long for applications to figure out they should specify the
machine type explicitly rather than leaving that up to libvirt :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization