[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@qumranet.com>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:37:01AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:25:06PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>>   
>>> All,
>>>      Attached is a three part patch series to implement a "-uuid" command-line
>>> option to qemu.  The original work for this was all done by Gleb Natapov; since
>>> there hadn't seemed to be any activity on this since June, I picked up his
>>> patches and ran with them (original posting:
>>> http://www.archivum.info/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/2008-06/msg00167.html).  These
>>> patches are basically the same as his, just cleaned up according to Anthony
>>> Liguori's feedback.
>>>     
>> Actually there was activity on this. I addressed Anthony's feedback and
>> reposted the patch series (I think even twice). Here is the last one:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00448.html
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00442.html
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00443.html
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00444.html
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00445.html
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00446.html
>>
>> Fabrice said that he doesn't like vmware backdoor interface though
>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00487.html)
>> I asked what interface he wants to use for qemu/guest communication, but
>> he never replied to this :(
>>   
>
> The backdoor interface is deprecated (from a VMware perspective) and is  
> pretty terrible.  I'll go through and do a more thorough review of the  
> patches Chris posted but one thing I already know I'd like to see the  
Review my last submission I linked above then too.

> UUID plumbed through the SMBIOS tables for x86.  That's a requirement in  
> my mind for adding a -uuid option.  I see no harm in also supporting the  
> backdoor interface but the primary way to expose a UUID should be SMBIOS.
I am not sure I understand what you mean. Currently SMBIOS tables are
built by bochs bios and UUID backdoor is needed to fill in missing info.


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			Gleb.