Alex Bligh <a...@alex.org.uk> writes: > On 22 Sep 2014, at 16:45, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > >> What about adding a bool property "qemu-kvm-compat" to the MachineClass? >> Then a qemu-kvm shell script (like SUSE uses) can pass -global >> machine.qemu-kvm-compat=on whereas qemu-system-x86_64 would run in the
No need to mess with -global, just use -machine qemu-kvm-compat=off. You can have multiple -machine, and the last key=value wins. >> default non-qemu-kvm mode (config on disk would affect both). It would >> also allow running -machine pc-0.15,qemu-kvm-compat=on, ditching lots of >> new machine names and avoiding the name bikeshedding. > > I'd be happy with that. Presumably downstream can then patch > things so qemu-kvm-compat defaults in the way they want (if > we don't like the configure option). > > However, that's not compatible with using PC_COMPAT as far as I > know (unless there is some cunning way you can make a machine > parameter change compat_props things). Monkey-patching MACHINE_GET_CLASS(machine)->compat_props? Gross, but I don't have better ideas to offer.
