Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for VM Generation ID

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:15:32 -0800
ben@skyportsystems.com wrote:

> From: Ben Warren <ben@skyportsystems.com>
> 
> This patch set adds support for passing a GUID to Windows guests.  It is a
> re-implementation of previous patch sets written by Igor Mammedov et al, but
> this time passing the GUID data as a fw_cfg blob.
> 
> This patch set has dependencies on new guest functionality, in particular the
> support for a new linker-loader command and the ability to write back data
> to QEMU over a DMA link.  Work is in flight in both SeaBIOS and OVMF to support this.
> 
> v7->v8:
>     - Rebased to top of tree.
>     - Fixed two small bugs in "write pointer" function
>     - minor re-ordering of data in patches
>     - Fixed unit test by adding delays/retries to reading RSDP table
Michael,

series looks good for merging.
Patch
 [PATCH v8 7/8] tests: Add unit tests for the VM  Generation ID feature
needs updated seabios blob to make 'make check' happy
so we probably should merge/update seabios first
  [PATCH v5 0/5] QEMU: Add capability to write back fw_cfg address to QEMU

CCing Gerd and Kevin.