Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1 v2] Allow machines to configure the QEMU_VERSION that's exposed via hardware

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 April 2012 21:16, Crístian Viana <address@hidden> wrote:
> Based on the following conversation:
>
> http://mid.gmane.org/address@hidden
>
>> Which reminds me - qemu sticks the release version in
>> guest visible places like CPU version.
>> This is wrong and causes windows guests to print messages
>> about driver updates when you switch.
>> We should find all these places and stop doing this.
>
> There is a new field on the struct QEmuMachine, hw_version, which may
> contain the version that the specific machine should report. If that
> field is set, then that machine will report that version to the virtual
> machine.

This is still changing the version printed in a bunch of user
facing usage and help messages. Please drop those.

-- PMM