[pve-devel] Set VirIO as default devices for Linux VMs (with patches)

[Dominik Csapak]

On 07/21/2016 11:10 AM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> (resending as the patch serie was missing from previous mail)
>
> This patch series adds capabilities to store Qemu Wizard Defaults, and
> use these capabilities
> to set virtio by default for Linux machines.
>
> Changes since V2:
>  * listen to 'radiogroup' events in OSTypeEdit instead of setting a
>  listener to each radio button
>   * do not declare components alias with an array when the aliases
>   containt a single value
>
>   Implementation:
>   We listen for the 'change' event sent by the radiogroup, and changes the
>   value of the target controller.
>   This works correctly because all panels belonging to the wizard
>   are available in the DOM from the begining, and because the OS selection
>   panel is before the hard disk and network card panels.
>   The defaults are stored in a singleton class (automatically instanced by
>   the framework) so that they do not end up in the global namespace.
>
>   Please note that if for instance, you select the Linux OS, then select
>   a alternate controller, then go back and switch to another OS, then
>   your alternate controller selection is lost. This is intentional as
>   it would leave the user wiht a suboptimal controller ( ie VirtIO still
>   selected when you create a Other OS machine type )
>
>   This is similar to oVirt/VirtualBox who preselect different kind of
>   controllers  based on target guest OS.
>

whole series looks good to me