[vfio-users] Installing Catalyst prevents VM from booting.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2018-12-28 at 16:04 -0500, Kyle Marek wrote:
> q35 is the newer one with better support for more CPUs, PCI-E vs PCI,
> integrated SATA vs integrated IDE emulation, IOMMU emulation, and I
> *think* it is needed for hotplugging CPUs/memory.

[I wish people wouldn't top-post, but anyway ...]

I'm interested in switching to Q35 but it isn't entirely trivial.
Simply editing the machine-type line in the XML file doesn't do it:

If I change:

   <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-3.0'>hvm</type>

to:

   <type arch='x86_64' machine='Q35'>hvm</type>

I get:

   Error: unsupported configuration: IDE controllers are unsupported for this QEMU binary or machine type

I created the VM using Virtual Machine Manager under Fedora over a year
ago, so most of the settings were defaults at the time. Is there a
Dummy's Guide to changing this, or would it be easier to just create a
new VM (keeping the existing storage of course)? The man pages are
pretty unhelpful.

For completeness I attach the full XML file.

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