On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 09:30:20AM -0700, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:55:26AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Eduardo Habkost (ehabk...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > Migration with q35 was not possible before commit > > > 04329029a8c539eb5f75dcb6d8b016f0c53a031a, because q35 unconditionally > > > creates > > > an ich9-ahci device, that was marked as unmigratable. So all q35 machines > > > before pc-q35-2.4 were unmigratable, and there's no point in keeping > > > compatibility code for them. > > > > > > Remove all old pc-q35 machine classes and keep only pc-q35-2.4. > > > > But doesn't that mean that anyone who has a machine configured with one > > of those machine types will suddenly find it wont start? > > Yes, and they will have to update their configuration to use pc-q35-2.4 > or newer.
That seems easily avoidable: just make pc-q35-X alias pc-q35-2.4 for X < 2.4. > -- > Eduardo