Re: KVM not reporting dmidecode

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* jieryn@gmail.com <jieryn@gmail.com> [2008-02-13 12:18]:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm using vanilla sources 2.6.24.2 and KVM-60. I'm trying to install a
> corporate rollout WinXP image which utilizes WinPE in an attempt to be
> clever. Unfortunately, this seems to fail because dmidecode and vpddecode
> produce no usable results. Is there any chance that kvm/qemu will see
> support for this?? I'm getting fairly desperate.

I posted[1] a dmi patches a bit ago on qemu-devel for this.  There was a
better solution that involved fixing up the BIOS bits (bochs and qemu).
That patch is available as well on qemu-devel.  I've not see any
indication of when either bochs or qemu will pick up the DMI changes.

Until then you'll have to patch it in yourself.  This is the latest
revision AFAIK:

http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=120083547021821&w=2


1. http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=119740418021275&w=2

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Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
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