Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [qemu-devel] Default machine type setting for ppc64

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:02:51PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote: > On 2013年05月21日 16:45, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 21 May 2013 09:39, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> Libvirt has always had support for specifying what machine type to use. >>> This discussion is simply about what machine type to default to, if the >>> user hasn't explicitly asked for one. >>> >>> QEMU has the notion of a default machine for each target, and that is >>> what libvirt uses if the user hasn't specified a machine. It is not >>> libvirt's job to override QEMU's notion of the default machine here, >> Agreed; thanks for the clarification. >> >>> so if the 'mac99' machine type isn't suitable as the default either >>> QEMU needs to change that for the ppc target, or the user needs to >>> explicitly specify their desired machine type. >> OK, that makes sense. So is the problem here just configuration >> or is it the next layer above libvirt not being configurable? > Currently, the next layer above libvirt is not configurable. > It is dependent on this default setting. Users also expect > to start one VM successfully by default. What is the application above libvirt you are using ? It clearly needs to be fixed if it is to use non-x86 archs successfully.

Daniel