On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:01:50 +0300 Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> 26.03.2024 18:58, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé: > > >> This is not enough. This step is good already, but it lacks default > >> machine > >> type selection. In debian we carry a tiny patch to make microvm the > >> default > >> machine type or else it crashes at startup not finding "pc" machine or one > >> of its required devices. > > > > No crash here, what is your base commit? > > > > ./qemu-system-x86_64 > > qemu-system-x86_64: No machine specified, and there is no default > > Use -machine help to list supported machines > > Well, this is definitely better than a crash. I haven't looked at that for > a long time, initially it just crashed. > > Still, this current behavior isn't nice, - in my opinion it should select > microvm by default in this case. In arm we also don't have default => consensus was to let user pick poison explicitly. Would've don the same for x86 modulo that would break user's scripts expecting default machine. If it's something new like microvm, I wouldn't set default machine that way there won't expectations and won't be a discussion in future when new shiny not-microvm is around and one want's to ship both (like we had with pc vs q35). > https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/blob/master/debian/patches/microvm-default-machine-type.patch > is the outline (from more than 4 years ago), - it's a hack but shows what > I mean. > > /mjt >
