From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OEM version of Windows in kvm (SLIC &Co)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:58:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAB4FC8.7040800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAA3126.8070509@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
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.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2010-03-24 15:35 OEM version of Windows in kvm (SLIC &Co) Michael Tokarev
2010-03-25 11:58 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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