Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH v3 2/2] Add configure option --enable-pc-1-0-qemu-kvm

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 22/09/2014 19:30, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
> Well, Ubuntu (Serge I think) said in the Ubuntu bug report he'd
> be quite willing to break migration of pc-1.0 machine types
> from 14.04 to 14.04 because that machine type isn't the default
> anyway on 14.04.
> 
> But that isn't the point, as the patch (as a whole) doesn't
> break anything - it merely gives the possibility to import
> pc-1.0 machines from qemu-kvm. That's useful even if you
> build qemu from source every time.
> 
> Or were you just arguing against the ./configure option?

I'm arguing against special-casing pc-1.0.  Just apply the patch to
Ubuntu downstream and call it a day.

It's perfectly normal for machine types to be part of the downstream
(not so secret) sauce.

Paolo