On Wed, 07/05 12:04, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > While you can say people should just add '-M pc' that isn't a nice > user experiance, because it makes the assumption that people actually > understand what caused their breakage. When the incompatibilities > arise the error messages are unlikely to give any hint to users that > the problems are caused by the machine type change. So unless someone > is very familiar with debugging QEMU, they're not going to realize > that '-M pc' will fix their problem.
While we change the default, can we start to print a message like 'machine type ("-M" option) not specified, default to Q35. If you find compatibility issues, try "-M pc"'? Fam