[pve-devel] [PATCH] add a forcemachine parameter to force a specific qemu machine version

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > What is the problem - I do not see any conflict (the vm_start
> > parameter and the configuration option can have the same name).
> 
> Sure but if we have a machine option, the user might set it to a value which is
> newer than the vm is actually running with.

Do not understand that. We simply pass that value to kvm when we start the VM.
 
> So we have a snapshot using the actual config which has a wrong value for
> machine. Should then the snapshot simply overwrite that machine value? I
> wanted to archive that we may have to options in the feature.

Sorry - I do not understand that. We always save the correct version inside the snapshot.