Bug 678978

Summary: virt-manager doesn't have an option to specify machine type rhel5.5 or above
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Muhammad Riyas vk <mvattakk>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 5.6CC: sputhenp, xen-maint
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Description Muhammad Riyas vk 2011-02-21 07:20:34 UTC 
Description of problem:

To resolve BZ #655990 we have to start qemu with option "-M rhel5.5", but there is no option to specify "rhel5.5.0" with latest virt-manager and it still creates VM with following configuration

 <type arch='x86_64' machine='rhel5.4.0'>hvm</type>

and it cause qemu to start VM with " -M rhel5.4.0"

How reproducible:

Create a RHEL 5.5 or RHEL 5.6 VM from virt-manager and check the xml configuration for the line "machine='rhel5.4.0'"

Additional info:

# rpm -q virt-manager
virt-manager-0.6.1-13.el5
Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2011-03-10 16:29:59 UTC 
I don't think we want to provide this capability in virt-manager.

Basically the machine value is confusing in a UI sense, most users would probably interpret it to mean something about the guest or host OS, when it has little to do with either. I guarantee putting this in the UI would generate many bug reports from ignorant users who changed the setting and caused their windows machine to blue screen.

In the cases where a user needs to legitimately change this value for x86, we should recommend manually editting the XML.

Closing as WONTFIX