[libvirt-users] How to explain this libvirt oddity w.r.t machine types?

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 11:46 +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:05:16AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Interesting. What is the output of 'virsh capabilities'?
> 
> In attachment.

Looks reasonable enough.

> > More interesting still is the fact that the guest XML you shared
> > looks like an *active* XML, ie. one taken from a running guest...
> > Does that mean the guest can start even though it's using the 2.11
> > machine type?
> 
> No, of course it doesn't; the guest is running because I `virsh-edit`ed
> it to use 2.10 machine type :-)

Should have noticed that.

Welp, I'm fresh out of ideas then :/

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization