Re: OEM version of Windows in kvm (SLIC &Co)

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 03/24/2010 05:35 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> At least having a way to accept complete acpi table (with header
> and checksum and everything) is - IMHO - a good thing.
>    

Agreed.

> But I'm not sure about the OEM ID strings in other tables in seabios, --
> it is quite ugly, both in implementation (how to tell bios to change
> its identify?)

There is the firmware configuration interface, see hw/fw_cfg.[ch] (used 
to expose the acpi tables as well).

> and in the whole fact of it, since we're lying to the
> (virtual) machine.  But from another point of view, it should be a
> good debugging tool, since some software behaves differently given
> one or another strings in the BIOS...
>    

It's perfectly legitimate to lie to your guests.

For the OEM ID, we really need to change it to qemu for 0.13, so we'll 
need a firmware config interface for this even if we don't want to 
expose it to users.

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