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Description of problem:

RHEL9 currently has the pc-q35-rhel-7.6.0 machine type; I think we can remove it.
We need to keep pc-i440fx-rhel7.6.0 to keep compatibility specifically for layered products that need i440fx; but I don't think we have users of the q35 version.

The only possible case is for non-layered products users, who were very eager and created VMs on 8.0 where we didn't have the pc-q35-rhel8.x.x machine type yet.

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Martin: Can you confirm that we can nuke this MT?

FWIW: On s390x, we also keep the -rhel7.6.0 machine type, since this was the default machine type there in RHEL 8.0 (we didn't have AV at that point in time on s390x yet). So I slightly tend to keep the pc-q35-rhel7.6.0 machine type on x86, too, for consistency reason. No strong opinion, though (since q35 was not the default machine type there in RHEL 8.0 - AFAIK i440fx was used as default there instead?)

OK, as per Fabian's request, CNV need this machine type - so *keep* it.