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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: KVM usability
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:49:28 -0600
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On 03/09/2010 07:32 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/02/2010 04:36 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> I keep a patch in the SUSE version for quite some time now that 
>>> bumps the default to 384 for qemu-kvm. That was the first "round" 
>>> number where an openSUSE installation worked.
>>
>> If someone works up a patch and tests at least a couple types of 
>> guests to confirm that they all install with that number, I'd be 
>> happy to apply it (although we need some trickery to support older pc 
>> versions).
>
> We should avoid changing defaults.

I disagree.  IMHO, the defaults should represent our best suggestion for 
any given release.  The compatibility machines make it very easier for a 
user to fix on a particular version of a machine type.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori