From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:05:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090330140543.GE7285@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238421576.15558.146.camel@lappy>
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:59:36AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> Is there any interest in this series? Aside from copying host SMBIOS
> entries, it also seems useful for providing information to the guest
> about their virtual machine pool (perhaps via a type 3 entry), or
> whatever other bits of data someone might find useful (type 11, OEM
> string for instance). Thanks,
>
I think the patch is useful. Haven't looked at implementation though.
> Alex
>
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:05 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-30 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 19:05 [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support Alex Williamson
2009-03-23 19:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Allow SMBIOS entries to be loaded and provided to the VM BIOS Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 19:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-06 22:34 ` Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 22:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-07 19:34 ` Alex Williamson
2009-04-07 19:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-23 19:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] qemu:bios: Read external SMBIOS entries from the VM Alex Williamson
2009-04-06 19:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-30 13:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support Alex Williamson
2009-03-30 14:05 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2009-03-30 14:38 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-30 14:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-30 15:40 ` Alex Williamson
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