Hi,
If desired, in the future we can revert this behavior for pc-0.14 and earlier machines.And I'm still looking for a sane way to handle *this*.One possibility is to add device name remapping to machine types, like "ide is actually ide-0.14 when using pc-0.14" and put a different VMState in ide-0.14.
That isn't very different from subsections.Problem is that the old qemu version doesn't have the section at all, not that it looks somehow different.
cheers, Gerd