On 24 June 2014 18:55, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 05:47:53PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: >> What if different machines in a particular release had the >> property set to different defaults? > > I never saw that happen, and I don't think it is even likely: default > values set in instance_init, and compat_props are applied just after > instance_init, before object_new() returns. So a machine-type would need > to find a way to change fields after instance_init but before > compat_props are applied.
OK, yes, that's not going to happen. I had thought they were applied at the same point as -global settings. thask -- PMM
