From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:51:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <476065E1.9090209@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b31733c0712111319s2109e935o19c9d51d091a4056@mail.gmail.com>
Filip Navara wrote:
> Hi Ryan & others,
>
> now I have been holding a SMBIOS patch on my hard disk for way to long it
> seems. I used a different approach from yours, so I decided to publish it
> for review or further ideas. What I did was to modify the bochs bios to
> produce the SMBIOS tables and I get the UUID using VMware backdoor port from
> the virtual machine.
>
> Attached are just the changed files, creating a patch will take a while
> because it's against VERY OLD version of the sources.
>
> Oh, it also contains ACPI patch for the processor descriptors which was
> needed for some Windows versions and Darwin. Similar patch was used in KVM
> before, but this one dynamically detects the number of CPUs.
I strongly prefer your solution (Bochs BIOS) compared to modifying QEMU:
I already spent a lot of time moving the ACPI tables and other stuff to
the Bochs BIOS just for that !
Regards,
Fabrice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 20:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] Add SMBIOS/DMI table generation to PC machine Ryan Harper
2007-12-11 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1 of 3] export SMBIOS/DMI tables to PC machines Ryan Harper
2007-12-11 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present Ryan Harper
2007-12-11 21:19 ` Filip Navara
2007-12-12 22:51 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2008-01-03 19:55 ` Ryan Harper
2008-01-20 13:17 ` Filip Navara
2008-01-20 14:25 ` Paul Brook
2008-01-20 15:26 ` Filip Navara
2008-01-20 16:20 ` [kvm-devel] " Alexander Graf
2008-01-20 16:37 ` Filip Navara
2008-01-20 16:53 ` Alexander Graf
2008-01-20 17:01 ` Filip Navara
2007-12-11 21:21 ` Filip Navara
2007-12-11 20:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3 of 3] Add -uuid command line flag Ryan Harper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-07 20:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 3] Add SMBIOS/DMI table generation to PC machine Ryan Harper
2007-12-07 20:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present Ryan Harper
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