From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoIy1-00088x-SQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:00:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LoIxx-00087U-Qe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:00:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55005 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LoIxx-00087P-Ls for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:59:57 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48333) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LoIxx-0005ML-18 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:59:57 -0400 Message-ID: <49D0DE68.60309@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:59:52 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1237835133.7276.1107.camel@lappy> <1238421576.15558.146.camel@lappy> <20090330143845.GA26602@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090330143845.GA26602@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [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: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: qemu-devel , Alex Williamson , kvm Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > I can't help thinking that if we wish to provide metadata to guest OS > like system model, serial number, etc, then we'd be better off using > explicit named flags (or QEMU config file settings once that exists) > > -system-serial 2141241521 -system-model "Some Virtual Machine" > > and have QEMU generate the neccessary SMBIOS data, or other equivalent > data tables to suit the non-PC based machine types for which SMBIOS > is not relevant. > -smbios serial=blah,model=bleach ? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function