On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 09:08:52AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > Other heretic question: Should we maybe get rid of the default machine type > > for *all* targets? ... so that we do not continue to run into this issue > > again and again and again... > > /me votes "yes". > > take care, > Gerd
Well originally qemu tried to be friendly and to just create a reasonable machine when given a disk, to the point where it would even set up some networking by default. And I think it's not a bad idea, forcing everyone to specify a bunch of boilerplate does not really result in people researching which machine type is good for them, people instead just copy paste from a random website. So maybe we can detect that basic usage somehow (I only have some vague ideas) and then set a bunch of defaults that we consider best? -- MST
