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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support
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Alex Williamson |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support |
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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:59:36 -0600 |
Is there any interest in this series? Aside from copying host SMBIOS
entries, it also seems useful for providing information to the guest
about their virtual machine pool (perhaps via a type 3 entry), or
whatever other bits of data someone might find useful (type 11, OEM
string for instance). Thanks,
Alex
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:05 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> This series adds a new -smbios option for x86 that allows individual
> SMBIOS entries to be passed into the guest VM. This follows the same
> basic path as the support for loading ACPI tables. While SMBIOS is
> independent of ACPI, I chose to add the smbios_entry_add() function to
> acpi.c because they're both somewhat PC BIOS related (and ia64 can
> support SMBIOS and might be able to make use of it there).
>
> This feature allows the guest to see certain properties of the host if
> configured correctly. For instance, the system model and serial number
> in the type 1 entry. Obviously its only built at boot, so doesn't get
> updated for migration scenarios. User provided entries will supersede
> generated entries, so care should be taken when passing entries which
> describe physical properties, such as memory size and address ranges.
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>