From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LlpT4-0005HG-Rl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:50 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LlpT0-0005F4-8R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43175 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LlpT0-0005F1-2d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:46 -0400 Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:12944) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LlpSz-0005LP-Kv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:45 -0400 From: Alex Williamson Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:05:33 -0600 Message-Id: <1237835133.7276.1107.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel Cc: Alex Williamson , kvm This series adds a new -smbios option for x86 that allows individual SMBIOS entries to be passed into the guest VM. This follows the same basic path as the support for loading ACPI tables. While SMBIOS is independent of ACPI, I chose to add the smbios_entry_add() function to acpi.c because they're both somewhat PC BIOS related (and ia64 can support SMBIOS and might be able to make use of it there). This feature allows the guest to see certain properties of the host if configured correctly. For instance, the system model and serial number in the type 1 entry. Obviously its only built at boot, so doesn't get updated for migration scenarios. User provided entries will supersede generated entries, so care should be taken when passing entries which describe physical properties, such as memory size and address ranges. Thanks, Alex