Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:59:36AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
> 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,
> 
I think the patch is useful. Haven't looked at implementation though.

> 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 
> > 
> 
> 
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