Re: [Qemu-devel] When should management tools use q35?

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 01/06/2014 03:22, Cole Robinson ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> There was a bit of discussion recently about exposing q35 in virt-manager:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2014-May/msg00001.html
>
> In that thread, Gerd suggested a 'rule of thumb' to use q35 for any guest OS
> released in 2010 or later. Sounds reasonable to me, but I'm curious if anyone
> else wants to weigh in.
>
> Is q35 in 'good enough' shape to turn on a default like that? Does it still
> block migration? (pretty sure that was fixed, but I haven't confirmed)

AHCI migration still does not work reliably.  I think that we could 
change it to block migration only if you have IDE drives, but still 
means that exposing q35 in virt-manager might be problematic.

Paolo