Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/22] Refactor machine support

[Paolo Bonzini]

> The magic I'm preferring to is precisely things like pci="on".

Hmm, pci=on is magic indeed. :-)

> What I'm objecting to is making machine construction be controlled by an 
> arbitrary set of hardcoded parameters.
> My argument is that in the short term this parameterization provides limited 
> benefit, and longer term it's going to be obsolete and probably painful to 
> support.

Then it would be enough to have these options available internally for use
in the machine-core but not export them to the command-line.  If we only
aim at using management interfaces to use the interface we can be very
conservative and not export even things like default_drive.

Paolo