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Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?
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Marcel Apfelbaum |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many? |
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Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:38:41 +0300 |
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
>
- [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Andreas Färber, 2014/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Andreas Färber, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?,
Marcel Apfelbaum <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Peter Maydell, 2014/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Paolo Bonzini, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Markus Armbruster, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Andreas Färber, 2014/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2014/06/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?, Markus Armbruster, 2014/06/23