Is there some way to get exact hardware defaults with an already installed Qemu?
El 25/01/17 a les 18:37, Narcis Garcia ha escrit: > El 25/01/17 a les 12:53, Fam Zheng ha escrit: >> On Wed, 01/25 12:43, Narcis Garcia wrote: >>> El 25/01/17 a les 09:49, Alberto Garcia ha escrit: >>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 01:00:26AM +0100, Joe wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm trying Qemu (2.8.0) on Slackware GNU Linux 14.2 (64-bit) host. >>>>> I've a Windows XP (guest) raw image which was working with Qemu >>>>> times ago (I used it on an older Slackware version as host system). >>>> >>>> The default hardware emulated by QEMU changes in each new version. >>>> >>>> If it worked with an earlier version and now you find that the guest >>>> is detecting new hardware, try forcing the emulation of a machine from >>>> an older version of QEMU. >>>> >>>> For example: >>>> >>>> qemu-system-i386 -M pc-i440fx-1.6 -m 2G ... >>>> >>>> Type 'qemu-system-i386 -M ?' for a complete list. >>>> >>>> Berto >>>> >>> >>> Is there some documentation about default hardware for each QEMU version? >>> For similar reason, I'm interested in to use equivalent specification by >>> parameters, to "freeze" a lot of guests' hardware environments. >>> >>> >> >> In this case you may want to use virt-manager/libvirt to manage your VMs, >> which >> will take care of stablizing QEMU parameters across version changes and even >> more importantly migration (in case you use it). >> >> Fam >> > > 3 reasons: I prefer to control what is Qemu emulating, I already have > guest OSes configured for a Qemu defaults, and I use my own virtual > manager (not the libvirt one). > I suppose libvirt developers had the same question to solve. >
