On 03/25/2012 03:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> qemu -M pc >>> >>> Would effectively be short hand for -readconfig >>> /usr/share/qemu/machines/pc.cfg >> >> In that case >> >> qemu -cpu westmere >> >> is shorthand for -readconfig /usr/share/qemu/cpus/westmere.cfg. > > > This is not a bad suggestion, although it would make -cpu ? a bit > awkward. Do you see an advantage to this over having > /usr/share/qemu/target-x86_64-cpus.cfg that's read early on?
Nope. As long as qemu -nodefconfig -cpu westmere works, I'm happy. The reasoning is, loading target-x86_64-cpus.cfg does not alter the current instance's configuration, so reading it doesn't violate -nodefconfig. >>> files be read by default or just treated as additional configuration >>> files. >> >> If they're read as soon as they're referenced, what's the difference? > I think the thread has reduced to: should /usr/share configuration > > I suspect libvirt would not be happy with reading configuration files > on demand.. Why not? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function