On 21 May 2013 13:04, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
We've talked in the past about having an accelerator specific machine default. I think this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do and would solve the problem for ARM and for PPC.
For ARM I would prefer not to have a default at all, and make the next level up specify it. It's reasonable to have a default machine choice for when you create a VM configuration; it's not so sensible to have a default that's picked every time you run the VM. The thing I think is most likely to be the useful choice for KVM/ARM isn't even in the tree yet... There's no user level difference between "pick whether you wanted a model of a versatile-PB or a zaurus" and "pick whether you wanted a model of an x86-PC or an ARM zaurus". At the moment we require the user to specify the latter choice (by having them in separate executables) but try to guess the former.
That said, why is mac99 the default?
Presumably because it was a sensible choice when it was originally put in, and once you have a default you can't change it without breaking peoples' command lines. thanks -- PMM