On 04/06/2018 14:24, Igor Mammedov wrote: >> Yes it's easy to add -machine pc but there's no documentation >> that tells you to do so. Add to that shortcuts like -cdrom >> stop working, hotplug needs extra bridges to work, and one >> can see that while management tool users benefit from q35, >> command line users will suffer. > Maybe we should mark 'pc' default as deprecated first, > like we do with CLI options that we wish to drop in future? > > That way we 'create' documentation, so users would be aware > of the change and have time to fix their CLI if they prefer > 'pc' machine.
Michael has listed reasons why 'pc' cannot be deprecated, since some of them are not even fixable. Honestly, 'pc' works well for 99% of the use cases---just like you probably don't care whether your laptop has a PCI or PCIe chipset. Paolo
