Re: [RFC v2 00/18] Refactor configuration of guest memory protection

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/06/20 01:30, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
>> On 04/06/20 23:54, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>>> QEMU could always create a PEF object, and if the command line defines
>>> one, it will correspond to it. And if the command line doesn't define one,
>>> then it would also work because the PEF object is already there.
>>
>> How would you start a non-protected VM?
>> Currently it's the "-machine"
>> property that decides that, and the argument requires an id
>> corresponding to "-object".
> 
> If there's only one object, there's no need to specify its id.

This answers my question.  However, the property is defined for all
machines (it's in the "machine" class), so if it takes the id for one
machine it does so for all of them.

Paolo