On 22 Sep 2014, at 16:45, Andreas Färber <afaerber(a)suse.de> wrote:
What about adding a bool property "qemu-kvm-compat" to the
MachineClass?
Then a qemu-kvm shell script (like SUSE uses) can pass -global
machine.qemu-kvm-compat=on whereas qemu-system-x86_64 would run in the
default non-qemu-kvm mode (config on disk would affect both). It would
also allow running -machine pc-0.15,qemu-kvm-compat=on, ditching lots of
new machine names and avoiding the name bikeshedding.
I'd be happy with that. Presumably downstream can then patch
things so qemu-kvm-compat defaults in the way they want (if
we don't like the configure option).
However, that's not compatible with using PC_COMPAT as far as I
know (unless there is some cunning way you can make a machine
parameter change compat_props things).
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Alex Bligh