[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 08:28:20PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:24:43PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> >>Does any OS (Windows?) depend on the tables the bios creates (e.g. smbios)
> >>for licensing? It would be ugly if Windows wants you to re-activate after a 
> >>reboot
> >>following a migration to newer qemu version and therefore possibly changed 
> >>tables
> >>due to newer bios.
> >>
> >I am not talking about OS visible stuff.
> 
> How do you want to avoid OS visible changes if the bios is reread on each 
> reset? People
> can upgrade/change their bios in the pc-bios directory and bad things could 
> happen if its
> reloaded on each reset.
> 
The fact that people can doesn't mean people should. Arbitrary
combination of qemu + BIOS is not supported. If people do what you say
the bad things will happen anyway after restarting qemu instead of
reboot.

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                        Gleb.