From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:59:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D0DE68.60309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090330143845.GA26602@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I can't help thinking that if we wish to provide metadata to guest OS
> like system model, serial number, etc, then we'd be better off using
> explicit named flags (or QEMU config file settings once that exists)
>
> -system-serial 2141241521 -system-model "Some Virtual Machine"
>
> and have QEMU generate the neccessary SMBIOS data, or other equivalent
> data tables to suit the non-PC based machine types for which SMBIOS
> is not relevant.
>
-smbios serial=blah,model=bleach ?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>,
kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:59:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D0DE68.60309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090330143845.GA26602@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I can't help thinking that if we wish to provide metadata to guest OS
> like system model, serial number, etc, then we'd be better off using
> explicit named flags (or QEMU config file settings once that exists)
>
> -system-serial 2141241521 -system-model "Some Virtual Machine"
>
> and have QEMU generate the neccessary SMBIOS data, or other equivalent
> data tables to suit the non-PC based machine types for which SMBIOS
> is not relevant.
>
-smbios serial=blah,model=bleach ?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-30 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 19:05 [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support Alex Williamson
2009-03-23 19:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2009-03-23 19:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Allow SMBIOS entries to be loaded and provided to the VM BIOS Alex Williamson
2009-03-23 19:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 19:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-06 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-04-06 22:34 ` Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 22:34 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 22:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-06 22:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-04-07 19:34 ` Alex Williamson
2009-04-07 19:34 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm] " Alex Williamson
2009-04-07 19:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-07 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm] " Anthony Liguori
2009-03-23 19:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] qemu:bios: Read external SMBIOS entries from the VM Alex Williamson
2009-03-23 19:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 19:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-06 19:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-03-30 13:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support Alex Williamson
2009-03-30 13:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2009-03-30 14:05 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-03-30 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gleb Natapov
2009-03-30 14:38 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-30 14:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-30 14:59 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-03-30 14:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-30 15:40 ` Alex Williamson
2009-03-30 15:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
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