Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?

>> Concerning QEMU, could we maybe simply emit a warning a la >> >> "you did not specify a machine type with the -M option, so you are >> currently running the the 'pc' machine type. Please note that >> future >> versions of QEMU might use the 'q35' machine type instead. If you >> require the 'pc' machine type for your setting, then please specify >> it with the -M option." > Warnings tend to get ignored until things are actually break, so I > don't think this helps much. I think simply not having a default > machine type (as already suggested elsewhere in this thread) is the > best way to deal with this. I would absolutely hate this. One of the nice things about qemu has always been that 'qemu disk.img' is enough to start a simple VM. You only need to touch any other options for things you care about. I wouldn't want to give this up.