diff --git a/InstallGuide.txt b/InstallGuide.txt
index c0d4a068..6ac3d091 100644
--- a/InstallGuide.txt
+++ b/InstallGuide.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ cp openqa.conf.template openqa.conf
 # provider = https://id.fedoraproject.org/
 
 
+# apply patch fixing machine-pausing in QEMU, if needed
+# https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst/commit/c8896375288d5f39424cf06108a92c8498c4aff3
+
 # services
 systemctl enable apache2
 systemctl restart apache2
diff --git a/QEMU_variables.txt b/QEMU_variables.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6a303357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/QEMU_variables.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+= QEMU settings =
+
+Set via variables per-testsuite in the OpenQA-opensuse tests (might make more sense to do it per-machine):
+
+    # disk settings
+    $vars->{NUMDISKS}  ||= 1;
+    $vars->{HDDSIZEGB} ||= 10;
+    $vars->{HDDMODEL}  ||= "virtio-blk";
+    # network settings 
+    $vars->{NICMODEL}  ||= "virtio-net";
+    $vars->{NICTYPE}   ||= "user";
+    $vars->{NICMAC}    ||= "52:54:00:12:34:56";
+    # misc
+    if (!$vars->{OFW}) {
+        $vars->{QEMUVGA} ||= ["cirrus"];
+    }
+    else {
+        $vars->{QEMUVGA} ||= [ 'std', '-g', '1024x768' ];
+    }
+    $vars->{QEMUCPUS}  ||= 1;
+    if ( defined( $vars->{RAIDLEVEL} ) ) {
+        $vars->{NUMDISKS} = 4;
+    }
+
+
+
+UEFI, USBBOOT, KEEPHDDS, LAPTOP - ???
+
+
+
+
+