Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?

[Andreas Färber]

Am 24.06.2014 07:21, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 24/06/2014 00:33, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>
>> I actually wonder if it is not going to be "-machine pseries-2.0" then
>> what
>> will it look like? "-machine pseries,qemucompat=2.0"?
> 
> I would keep using pseries-2.0.
> 
> There might be some class hierarchy, like
> 
>    spapr-machine
>      spapr-machine-2.2
>        spapr-machine-2.1
> 
> I don't know what Andreas had in mind though, but you can check out
> Eduardo's patches for QOMifying the PC machines and take inspiration
> from there.  That's probably a safe bet.

That's pretty much what I meant, yes. (Eduardo, not Marcel then. :))
Not sure about spapr-machine vs. spapr-machine-2.2, but
pseries-2.1-machine inheriting from and overriding properties of
pseries[-2.2]-machine definitely. Whatever works.

Andreas

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