On 03/25/2012 03:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
qemu -M pc
Would effectively be short hand for -readconfig /usr/share/qemu/machines/pc.cfg
In that case
qemu -cpu westmere
is shorthand for -readconfig /usr/share/qemu/cpus/westmere.cfg.
This is not a bad suggestion, although it would make -cpu ? a bit awkward. Do you see an advantage to this over having /usr/share/qemu/target-x86_64-cpus.cfg that's read early on?
Nope. As long as qemu -nodefconfig -cpu westmere works, I'm happy. The reasoning is, loading target-x86_64-cpus.cfg does not alter the current instance's configuration, so reading it doesn't violate -nodefconfig.
files be read by default or just treated as additional configuration files.
If they're read as soon as they're referenced, what's the difference? I think the thread has reduced to: should /usr/share configuration
I suspect libvirt would not be happy with reading configuration files on demand..
Why not? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function