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

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 June 2018 at 18:18, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> 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?

thanks
-- PMM