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Boxes shouldn't use "pc" as default machine-type

Fabiano Fidêncio requested to merge ffidencio/gnome-boxes:wip/q35 into master

This patch set changes the default machine-type from "pc" to "q35". In order to do so, a few other changes were required such as:

  • Check also for virtio1 devices instead of only checking for virtio;
  • Use SATA as default instead of IDE when using q35;
  • Use ICH9 as default instead of ICH6 when using q35;

This patch set depends on:

Although I've done some simple tests for Windows XP, Windows 7, CentOS 6, CentOS 7 and Fedora29 it'd be really nice to have it quite well tested mainly with the express installations.

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