Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think > > adding non-transitional alias devices would overall be more > > user-friendly. > > I don't think it makes sense to add it at the qemu level. From libvirt's > point of view users should be shielded from any qemu impl detail or > inconsistency as libvirt is the 'user friendly'[1] layer. In qemu the > devices would be the same and thus does not make sense to do that > because it would be more confusing. > > You can argue that we should add the alias at the libvirt level though. You can, but please don't.