On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 03:48:50PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > In terms of validation I can't help but feel the whole proposal is > really very complicated. > > In validating QEMU migration compatibility we merely compare the > versioned machine type. > > IIUC, in this proposal, it would be more like exploding the machine > type into all its 100's of properties and then comparing each one > individually. > > I really prefer the simpler model of QEMU versioned machine types > where compatibility is a simple string comparison, hiding the > 100's of individual config parameters.
I think we need to ship a tool with QEMU that handles this complexity. If the tool spits out a very long string with all the needed parameters, management won't need to care that it's not just a short machine type. -- MST
