[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Arm architectures don't have a default machine type

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 15:28 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:21:32PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Commit 26cfb1a3cd39 introduced a list of preferred machine types,
> > which are meant to reflect QEMU's per-architecture historical
> > defaults and shield libvirt users from any changes in that area.
> > 
> > Arm architectures, however, never had a default machine type
> > associated with them, so if no machine type is requested by the
> > user we should just go through the usual path of picking the
> > first one reported by the 'query-machines' QMP command instead
> > of using integratorcp straight away.
> 
> NACK, this is incorrect and breaking historical libvirt behaviour.
> 
> When QEMU does not report any default machine type for an
> architecture, libvirt would pick the first machine type
> it found. This is why "integratorcp" must be listed here.

I suspected as much after initially discussing the issue, hence
why I CC'd you when posting. Looks like that was a good call! :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization