Quoting Alex Bligh (alex@alex.org.uk):
On 22 Sep 2014, at 20:10, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
I'm arguing against special-casing pc-1.0. Just apply the patch to Ubuntu downstream and call it a day.
It's perfectly normal for machine types to be part of the downstream (not so secret) sauce.
Well, I've just sent through a version that works as a machine parameter instead. If upstream doesn't like this, I'd prefer downstream took v2 of the patch (which makes -M pc-1.0 work) instead. That's also what Serge tested.
Yeah, prefer v2 as well. Sorry if that means wasted time on your part. Though I'm also thinking I prefer to have pc-1.0-precise defined in both precise's qemu-kvm 1.0, and later qemu 2.x, and requiring some purely-on-precise action to switch the machine type from pc-1.0 to pc-1.0-precise before migrating to trusty/later. But as I mentioned elsewhere there's still the concerns of (a) how much other still (like virito-net) will still break, and (b) the practical issues of how to ship the old roms. -serge