[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> The backdoor interface is deprecated (from a VMware perspective) and is 
>> pretty terrible.  I'll go through and do a more thorough review of the 
>> patches Chris posted but one thing I already know I'd like to see the 
>> UUID plumbed through the SMBIOS tables for x86.  That's a requirement in 
>> my mind for adding a -uuid option.  I see no harm in also supporting the 
>> backdoor interface but the primary way to expose a UUID should be SMBIOS.
>>     
>
> Hm, but that's basically what this does, in combination with the Bochs BIOS.
> Once the Bochs BIOS reaches the rombios32 code, it makes the calls into the
> device model VMware backdoor to get the UUID.  Assuming this all succeeds, the
> Bochs BIOS then plumbs it into the SMBIOS tables.
>   

Are there patches for the Bochs BIOS to do this?  Why wouldn't it just 
use CMOS to get at the UUID?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Is that what you meant, or did you mean something else?  A quick grep for
> "smbios" didn't turn up anything in the qemu source tree, so I'm not sure where
> else we would implement this.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Lalancette
>