Re: [Qemu-devel] change x86 default machine type to Q35?

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 12/07/2017 8:51, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,

Hi,

> > > I think simply not having a default
> > > machine type (as already suggested elsewhere in this thread) is the
> > > best way to deal with this.
> >
> > I would absolutely hate this. One of the nice things about qemu has
> > always been that 'qemu disk.img' is enough to start a simple VM.
>
> Well, not really.  There is no "qemu" any more, and there are other
> defaults like default memory size which need tweaks, so the minimum
> command line isn't that short any more and looks more like this:
>
>      qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1G disk.img

If the command line is the main concern, I don't think is
enough to be the reason not to switch the default.
We can work on achieving the same/close with Q35.

Thanks,
Marcel


> cheers,
>    Gerd