the default SeaBIOS to OVMF only if you plan to use
xref:qm_pci_passthrough[PCIe passthrough].
+[[qm_machine_type]]
+
Machine Type
^^^^^^^^^^^^
chipset, which also provides a virtual PCIe bus, and thus may be
desired if you want to pass through PCIe hardware.
+Machine Version
++++++++++++++++
+
Each machine type is versioned in QEMU and a given QEMU binary supports many
machine versions. New versions might bring support for new features, fixes or
general improvements. However, they also change properties of the virtual
QEMU binary is used (e.g. the newest machine version QEMU 8.1 supports is
version 8.1 for each machine type).
+[[qm_machine_update]]
+
+Update to a Newer Machine Version
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
Very old machine versions might become deprecated in QEMU. For example, this is
the case for versions 1.4 to 1.7 for the i440fx machine type. It is expected
that support for these machine versions will be dropped at some point. If you