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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
	jan.kiszka@siemens.com, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, blauwirbel@gmail.com,
	yamahata@valinux.co.jp, juzhang@redhat.com, kevin@koconnor.net,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	mkletzan@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com,
	afaerber@suse.de, armbru@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/26] q35 qemu support
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:03:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50855247.5060502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121022142347.GC18658@redhat.com>

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On 10/22/2012 08:23 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 07:00:56AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 10/22/2012 07:16 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>
>>> I worry about need to maintain  bug for bug compatibility on the
>>> unlikely chance that the work to complete it gets delayed and we release
>>> it in an unready state.
>>>
>>>> But in any case this needs
>>>> discussion with the libvirt folks to make sure it will actually work as
>>>> intended.  /me tends to think a experimental bit in machine_info (which
>>>> is then printed by 'qemu -M ?' and the QOM-version of that) is more
>>>> useful than playing tricks with the name.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>   Gerd
>>>
>>> I agree it's best to ask libvirt folks what's the right way to hide
>>> a machine type from it. Add a flag so it's not listed in -M ?  ?
>>
>> For qemu 1.3, libvirt will NOT be reading '-M ?', but instead calling
>> the 'query-machines' QMP command.  If you want a machine to be avoided
>> by libvirt, then perhaps it is best to augment the MachineInfo QMP
>> datatype to add an optional field that says whether a particular machine
>> type is stable enough for libvirt's use.
> 
> Or just hide this machine type from the query-machines command?

That would probably work, as well.

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


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-22 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19 20:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/26] q35 qemu support Jason Baron
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/26] blockdev: Introduce a default machine blockdev interface field, QEMUMachine->mach_if Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:47   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 11:26     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-10-22 18:02       ` Jason Baron
2012-10-24 13:12   ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-24 19:41     ` Jason Baron
2012-10-26 10:28       ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-26  9:53   ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/26] blockdev: Introduce IF_AHCI Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:48   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 11:40     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-10-22 18:11       ` Jason Baron
2012-10-24 15:50         ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-24 19:36           ` Jason Baron
2012-10-26 12:56             ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 03/26] pci: pci capability must be in PCI space Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:48   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/26] pci: introduce pci_swizzle_map_irq_fn() for standardized interrupt pin swizzle Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:51   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 05/26] pc, pc_piix: split out pc nic initialization Jason Baron
2012-10-22 13:27   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 06/26] pc: Move ioapic_init() from pc_piix.c to pc.c Jason Baron
2012-10-22 13:28   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/26] pc/piix_pci: factor out smram/pam logic Jason Baron
2012-10-22 11:05   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-29 16:21   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 08/26] pci_ids: add intel 82801BA pci-to-pci bridge id Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:51   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/26] pci: Add class 0xc05 as 'SMBus' Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:52   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 10/26] pcie: pass pcie window size to pcie_host_mmcfg_update() Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:54   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 12/26] ich9: Add acpi support and definitions Jason Baron
2012-10-22 11:07   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 11:22   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-29 16:29   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/26] pcie: Convert PCIExpressHost to use the QOM Jason Baron
2012-10-22 10:55   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 13/26] ich9: Add the lpc chip Jason Baron
2012-10-22 11:12   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 11:27   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-23  4:22     ` Isaku Yamahata
2012-10-29 16:20   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 15/26] q35: Introduce q35 pc based chipset emulator Jason Baron
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 14/26] ich9: Add smbus Jason Baron
2012-10-22 11:13   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 16/26] ich9: Add i82801b11 dmi-to-pci bridge Jason Baron
2012-10-22 13:53   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 18/26] q35: Suppress SMM BIOS initialization under KVM Jason Baron
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 17/26] Add i21154 bridge chip Jason Baron
2012-10-22 13:26   ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-22 16:17     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 18:18       ` Jason Baron
2012-10-22 18:53       ` Andreas Färber
2012-10-27 12:42       ` Blue Swirl
2012-10-22 14:03   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 20:48     ` Jason Baron
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 19/26] q35: Fix non-PCI IRQ processing in ich9_lpc_update_apic Jason Baron
2012-10-22 14:04   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 20/26] q35: smbus: Remove PCI_STATUS_SIG_SYSTEM_ERROR and PCI_STATUS_DETECTED_PARITY from w1cmask Jason Baron
2012-10-21 12:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 21/26] q35: Add kvmclock support Jason Baron
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 22/26] Add a fallback bios file search, if -L fails Jason Baron
2012-10-21  7:26   ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-21  9:52     ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 23/26] q35: automatically load the q35 dsdt table Jason Baron
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 25/26] q35: fill in usb pci slots with -usb Jason Baron
2012-10-22  5:54   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-24 17:10   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 24/26] q35: add acpi-based pci hotplug Jason Baron
2012-10-22 14:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-19 20:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 26/26] ich9: add support pci assignment Jason Baron
2012-10-20 16:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/26] q35 qemu support Michael Tokarev
2012-10-21 12:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-21 12:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22  5:58   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-22 10:08     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 10:37       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-10-22 13:16         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 13:00           ` Eric Blake
2012-10-22 14:23             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-10-22 14:03               ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-10-22 14:39                 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-22 15:37           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-27  8:12             ` Michael Tokarev
2012-10-22 13:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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