Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for VM Generation ID

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 02/20/17 15:57, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:15:32 -0800
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
>> From: Ben Warren <address@hidden>
>>
>> This patch set adds support for passing a GUID to Windows guests.  It is a
>> re-implementation of previous patch sets written by Igor Mammedov et al, but
>> this time passing the GUID data as a fw_cfg blob.
>>
>> This patch set has dependencies on new guest functionality, in particular the
>> support for a new linker-loader command and the ability to write back data
>> to QEMU over a DMA link.  Work is in flight in both SeaBIOS and OVMF to 
>> support this.
>>
>> v7->v8:
>>     - Rebased to top of tree.
>>     - Fixed two small bugs in "write pointer" function
>>     - minor re-ordering of data in patches
>>     - Fixed unit test by adding delays/retries to reading RSDP table
> Michael,
> 
> series looks good for merging.

The OVMF patches for WRITE_POINTER are now upstream.

Thanks
Laszlo

> Patch
>  [PATCH v8 7/8] tests: Add unit tests for the VM  Generation ID feature
> needs updated seabios blob to make 'make check' happy
> so we probably should merge/update seabios first
>   [PATCH v5 0/5] QEMU: Add capability to write back fw_cfg address to QEMU
> 
> CCing Gerd and Kevin.
>