On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 07:58:32AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > Would it make sense to temporarily rename the machine type e.g. > > pc-q35-experimental to stress it's not fully supported? > > I don't think this is needed as piix will continue to be the default.
Well q35 is not yet 100% ready. I'm looking for some way in which we can signal libvirt and other users when it's ready, while merging some bits to reduce the maintainance load of maintaining a q35 fork. > It will also cause trouble with libvirt when pc-q35-experimental goes > away some day. > > cheers, > Gerd The point was to hide it from libvirt. libvirt should support pc-q35 not pc-q35-experimental, then it will not cause trouble. -- MST