On 23 February 2016 at 18:34, Wei Huang <w...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/22/2016 04:14 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> My view here is the same as it has been in the past regarding >> adding versioned machine types for 'virt': are you (in this case >> Redhat) willing to stand behind it, in the sense of taking on >> the maintenance burden of adding new machine versions, reviewing >> new code contributions for issues that require changes to make sure >> that the old versions stay looking like the old machine, testing >> that old versions look right, testing cross version migration, >> and so on? > > I understand your concerns. Currently our in-house tree already carries > versioned ARM machine types, which mirror both QEMU 2.4 and QEMU 2.5. > Thus someone (including myself) from Red Hat shouldn't have any problem > of maintaining/testing it because we are already doing it downstream. > x86 and ppc have a similar situation.
Thanks for the clarification -- if you as a distro are already supporting versioned machine types downstream that's a strong argument for adding it upstream. -- PMM
