On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:04:54PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 22 May 2015 at 12:01, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On the QEMU side of things I wonder if there is scope for taking AArch64's > > 'virt' machine type concept and duplicating it on all architectures. > > Experience suggests that holding the line on "minimal" is really > quite tricky, though -- there's always one more thing that > somebody really wants to add...
Yep, it is hard saying no - but I'd think as long as it was possible to add the extra features using -device, it ought to be practical to keep a "virt" machine types "-nodefaults -nodefconfig" base setup pretty minimal. In particular I don't see why we need to have a SATA controller and ISA/LPC bridge in every virt machine - root PCI bus only should be possible, as you can provide disks via virtio-blk or virtio-scsi and serial, parallel, mouse, floppy via PCI devices and/or by adding a USB bus in the cases where you really need one. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
