Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: Switch to q35 as the default machine type

[Igor Mammedov]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 03:17:04 -0500
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 09:08:52AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >   
> > > Other heretic question: Should we maybe get rid of the default machine 
> > > type
> > > for *all* targets? ... so that we do not continue to run into this issue
> > > again and again and again...  
> > 
> > /me votes "yes".
> > 
> > take care,
> >   Gerd  
> 
> Well originally qemu tried to be friendly and to just create
> a reasonable machine when given a disk, to the point where
> it would even set up some networking by default.
> 
> And I think it's not a bad idea, forcing everyone to specify a bunch of
> boilerplate does not really result in people researching which machine
> type is good for them, people instead just copy paste from a random
> website.
> 
> So maybe we can detect that basic usage somehow (I only have some
> vague ideas) and then set a bunch of defaults that we consider
> best?
or ship with QEMU a wrapper script that does set defaults as
older QEMU used to do. But it will still require user to
change a called binary name, or maybe we can rename QEMU binary
to something else and name wrapper as original QEMU.