The concept of a machine type represents the ABI or HW revision of the virtual hardware being used and presented to the guest. It is in general recommended to be upgraded on an upgrade of qemu/kvm, but so far there was no interface for that which was easy to use.
Such a change is picked up by a domain when it is (re-)started as the virtual HW can't be replaced at runtime.
Libvirt support various hipervisors and all have machine types. But a machine type in the sense that virt-machine-type cares about are only really present in a qemu/kvm based hipervisor.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed on Fedora from the command line:
sudo dnf install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
To install virt-machine-type, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install virt-machine-type --edge
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