Re: Improve default machine type selection

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 08:23:25AM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > On 4/6/23 08:27, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 06:10:11AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > In conclusion, there currently doesn't seem to exist a way to define > > > a useful integratorcp-based VM in libvirt, which IMO means we can > > > safely change the default machine type for Arm architectures without > > > any concerns about breaking existing VMs. > > > > > > I will look into whether the same can be said for RISC-V > > > architectures. Hopefully that's the case. > > > > Yeah, the spike machine on RISC-V is unusable in basically the same > > ways that the integratorcp machine is on Arm. Let's just change the > > default to virt on all of those then :) > > Thanks for the confirmation. I should have time to work on this over the > next days. I haven't looked in detail yet, but I get the feeling there is > more to it than changing a few variables :-). Beyond code, do you have a > mental checklist of the items that will need adjusted? E.g. docs, examples, > tests, etc? I might be excessively optimistic, but I truly believe it could be as simple as changing a couple of lines in the QEMU driver :) I don't think we rely on default machine types anywhere in the test suite, and even if we were only minor touch-ups would probably be necessary.