Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: Allow the Hyper-V vendor ID to be specified

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 16/10/2015 17:38, Alex Williamson wrote:
> According to Microsoft documentation, the signature in the standard
> hypervisor CPUID leaf at 0x40000000 identifies the Vendor ID and is
> for reporting and diagnostic purposes only.  We can therefore allow
> the user to change it to whatever they want, within the 12 character
> limit.  Add a new hyperv-vendor-id option to the -cpu flag to allow
> for this, ex:
> 
>  -cpu host,hv_time,hv_vendor_id=KeenlyKVM
> 
> Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/hh975392
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> v2: Replace abort() with truncating the string, error report updated
> 
> Igor also had the idea of creating a DEFINE_PROP_STRING_LEN property
> where we could enforce the length earlier in the parameter checking.
> If we like that idea, we probably need to do it first since we don't
> want to switch from truncating to erroring between releases.  I can
> work on that if preferred.  Thanks,

I applied this one, because the truncation matches what is done in other
places (ACPI tables, SCSI product/vendor, etc.)

Paolo