From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Subject: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:05:33 -0600 Message-ID: <1237835133.7276.1107.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm , Alex Williamson To: qemu-devel Return-path: Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:12943 "EHLO g1t0026.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759811AbZCWTFp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:05:45 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This series adds a new -smbios option for x86 that allows individual SMBIOS entries to be passed into the guest VM. This follows the same basic path as the support for loading ACPI tables. While SMBIOS is independent of ACPI, I chose to add the smbios_entry_add() function to acpi.c because they're both somewhat PC BIOS related (and ia64 can support SMBIOS and might be able to make use of it there). This feature allows the guest to see certain properties of the host if configured correctly. For instance, the system model and serial number in the type 1 entry. Obviously its only built at boot, so doesn't get updated for migration scenarios. User provided entries will supersede generated entries, so care should be taken when passing entries which describe physical properties, such as memory size and address ranges. Thanks, Alex