On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 23:41 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 23.06.2014 23:35, schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy: > > Looks like I must copy PC_COMPAT_X_X as PSERIES_COMPAT_X_X starting 1.6 (or > > 1.7 - whichever starts supporting migration well enough on pseries) because > > pretty much of what they do is tweaking PCI devices and we can have all of > > these devices on pseries. And then keep an eye on what is happening in PC > > world to copy same tweaks to pseries as they come. Is that correct? > > Please don't. There's a series by Marcel on the list converting those PC > macros to QOM.
Actually, I think you are referring to is Eduardo's series :) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg03155.html Thanks, Marcel > You already have a QOM sPAPR machine, so you should just > derive new legacy types as needed and override things there. > > Also, -machine *is* the global mechanism we have to tell QEMU which > version you want, it's a shorthand for setting a list of global > properties. Don't forget that QEMU can be used without libvirt, so the > knowledge of which properties to set for which version is kept in QEMU. > > Cheers, > Andreas >
