[one-users] feature request

[Carlos Martín Sánchez]

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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Shankhadeep Shome <shank15217 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, machine types are supported by libvirt. In fact each version of
> libvirt may have a different machine spec, this might cause issues when
> migrating vms to a new kvm host with a newer machine spec. For these cases
> its better to be explicit about the machine type instead of setting it to
> "pc" or letting libvirt chose the machine type. I assume this is why they
> kept the feature.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Carlos Martín Sánchez <
> cmartin at opennebula.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I opened a ticket with your request:
>> http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/2143
>>
>> Is it supported by libvirt?
>>
>> Regards
>>
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>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Shankhadeep Shome <shank15217 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Please consider adding machine type to the OS section of the machine
>>> definition file for kvm
>>>
>>> Shank
>>>
>>> For example, in my template definition I have
>>>
>>> OS=[BOOT="hd",ARCH="x86_64"]
>>>
>>> But I should be able to use, currently machine is ignored.
>>>
>>> OS=[BOOT="hd",MACHINE="q35",ARCH="x86_64"]
>>>
>>> Qemu is currently adding a new machine type to the list, the ICH9
>>> chipset, the ubuntu 13.04 qemu comes with
>>>
>>> none                 empty machine
>>> pc                   Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of
>>> pc-i440fx-1.4)
>>> pc-i440fx-1.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
>>> pc-1.3               Standard PC
>>> pc-1.2               Standard PC
>>> pc-1.1               Standard PC
>>> pc-1.0               Standard PC
>>> pc-0.15              Standard PC
>>> pc-0.14              Standard PC
>>> pc-0.13              Standard PC
>>> pc-0.12              Standard PC
>>> pc-0.11              Standard PC, qemu 0.11
>>> pc-0.10              Standard PC, qemu 0.10
>>> isapc                ISA-only PC
>>> xenfv                Xen Fully-virtualized PC
>>> q35                  Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-1.4)
>>> pc-q35-1.4           Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
>>> xenpv                Xen Para-virtualized PC
>>>
>>> But notice the default is still the i440fx chipset. The new q35 emulated
>>> machine provides better support for pci-express pass-through.
>>>
>>> Shank
>>>
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