[virt-tools-list] [PowerKVM][RFC]setting machine type in virt-manager

[Eric Blake]

On 11/30/2011 02:01 AM, Li Zhang wrote:
>> - Never show anything about the machine type for i686/x86_64 guests.
>> Reason is that on fedora at least we have machine types like fedora13,
>> fedora14, etc. which maybe confuse the user into thinking it has
>> something to do with the OS installed in the guest (which it doesn't at
>> all).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cole
>>
> 
> Hi Cole,
> 
> Understand.
> BTW, Isn't machine type 'pc' for X86 architecture?
> fedora13 and fedora4 seem like OS type.
> Would you please correct me if I am wrong?

Machine type 'fedora-13' is a Fedora-specific alias for machine type
'pc-0.13' - that is, Fedora 13 was using qemu 0.12 but backported a
patch that added some machine features from qemu 0.13, so it invented
the name 'fedora-13' to expose those differences in default
capabilities.  It is a deprecated machine type (see bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754772), and there are plans
to silently convert 'fedora-13' into 'pc-0.13' prior to Fedora 18.

It has nothing to do with whether the guest or the host is running
Fedora 13 or any other version (although it will only appear in qemu
running on a fedora host).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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