[fedora-virt] [fedora-specific libvirt PATCH] qemu: replace deprecated fedora-13 machine type with pc-0.13

Amit Shah amit.shah at redhat.com
Tue Dec 13 18:24:35 UTC 2011


On (Tue) 13 Dec 2011 [10:44:48], Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 10:15 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >>> The fedora-13 machine type was just a slightly modified pc-0.12
> >>> machine type, so using pc-0.12 should be the safest.
> >>
> >> That's wrong.  The whole reason fedora-13 was introduced was because it
> >> exposed MORE features than stock pc-0.12, so it is closer either to
> >> pc-0.13 or to pc-0.14.
> > 
> > I wonder how you say that.  It's closer to pc-0.12 since there was
> > exactly one feature additional in fedora-13 since pc-0.12.
> 
> Maybe in F13 and F14 that was the case, but we're talking about F15 and
> F16.  In those builds, qemu ALREADY modified (gasp!) the 'fedora-13'
> machine name to be an alias for 'pc-0.14', not 'pc-0.12' or 'pc-0.13'.

[snip more info about the disaster]

OK, I agree pc-0.14 seems to be the best fit we have given all the
info you've collected...

Thanks!
		Amit


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