On 21 May 2013 13:04, Anthony Liguori <anth...@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
