From: Corey Minyard <tcminyard@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: First shot at adding IPMI to qemu
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:23:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFADB3F.40004@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341258281-9283-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org>
I haven't heard anything about these patches. Any comments, good or
bad? Has anyone tried these?
Thanks,
-corey
On 07/02/2012 02:44 PM, minyard@acm.org wrote:
> I had asked about getting an IPMI device into qemu and received some
> interest, and it's useful to me, so I've done some work to add it.
> The following patch set has a set of patches to add an IPMI KCS
> device, and IPMI BT device, a built-in BMC (IPMI management controller),
> and a way to attach an external BMC through a chardev.
>
> There was some discussion on whether to make the BMC internal or
> external, but I went ahead and added both. The internal one is
> fairly basic and not extensible, at least without adding code.
> I've modified the OpenIPMI library simulator to work with the
> external interface to allow it to receive connections from the
> qemu external simulator with a fairly basic protocol.
>
> I've also added the ability for the OpenIPMI library to manage
> a VM to power it on, power it off, reset it, and handle an IPMI
> watchdog timer. So it looks quite like a real system. Instructions
> for using it are in the OpenIPMI release candidate I uploaded to
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi
>
> Since IPMI can advertise it's presence via SMBIOS, I added a
> way for a driver to add an SMBIOS entry. I also added a way
> to query a free interrupt from the ISA bus, since the interrupt
> is in the SMBIOS entry and nobody really cares which one is used.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-09 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-02 19:44 First shot at adding IPMI to qemu minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 1/9] smbios: Add a function to directly add an entry minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 2/9] pc: move SMBIOS setup to after device init minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 3/9] isa: Add a way to query for a free interrupt minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 4/9] Add a base IPMI interface minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 5/9] IPMI: Add a PC ISA type structure minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 6/9] IPMI: Add a KCS low-level interface minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 7/9] IPMI: Add a BT " minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 8/9] IPMI: Add a local BMC simulation minyard
2012-07-02 19:44 ` [PATCH 9/9] IPMI: Add an external connection simulation interface minyard
2012-07-09 13:23 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2012-07-09 14:05 ` First shot at adding IPMI to qemu Daniel P. Berrange
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