[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] qemu: Add support for host-model pseries machine option

[Fabiano Rosas]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> writes:

> What userspace tool is broken, and in what way ?

The major use case, as far as I know, is from software license
managers which use this to determine how much to charge for
software. I would have to ask around to know exactly which ones and
how they operate.

> Re-introducing the host passthrough to satisfy a broken tool is not
> very attractive because it reintroduces the security flaw that the
> QEMU change was fixing.

Sure, this is reasonable. I'm just trying to make it less painful for
those that depend on the old behavior for some reason. =)

Determined folks will probably just use <qemu:commandline> anyway.