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

[Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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 
> 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.

Hm, but that's basically what this does, in combination with the Bochs BIOS.
Once the Bochs BIOS reaches the rombios32 code, it makes the calls into the
device model VMware backdoor to get the UUID.  Assuming this all succeeds, the
Bochs BIOS then plumbs it into the SMBIOS tables.

Is that what you meant, or did you mean something else?  A quick grep for
"smbios" didn't turn up anything in the qemu source tree, so I'm not sure where
else we would implement this.

Thanks,
Chris Lalancette