On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 09:03:38AM -0500, John Ferlan wrote: > > > On 01/17/2018 12:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > The OEM strings table in SMBIOS allows the vendor to pass arbitrary > > strings into the guest OS. This can be used as a way to pass data to an > > application like cloud-init, or potentially as an alternative to the > > kernel command line for OS installers where you can't modify the install > > ISO image to change the kernel args. > > > > As an example, consider if cloud-init and anaconda supported OEM strings > > you could use something like > > > > <oemStrings> > > <entry>cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/</entry> > > <entry>anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os</entry> > > </oemStrings> > > > > use of a application specific prefix as illustrated above is > > recommended, but not mandated, so that an app can reliably identify > > which of the many OEM strings are targetted at it. > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > docs/formatdomain.html.in | 13 ++++++++++++ > > docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 9 +++++++++ > > src/conf/domain_conf.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > src/util/virsysinfo.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > src/util/virsysinfo.h | 10 +++++++++ > > 5 files changed, 112 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in > > index d272cc1ba6..6af2d26209 100644 > > --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in > > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in > > @@ -411,6 +411,10 @@ > > <entry name='version'>0B98401 Pro</entry> > > <entry name='serial'>W1KS427111E</entry> > > </baseBoard> > > + <oemStrings> > > + <entry>myappname:some arbitrary data</entry> > > + <entry>otherappname:more arbitrary data</entry> > > + </oemStrings> > > </sysinfo> > > ...</pre> > > > > @@ -498,6 +502,15 @@ > > validation and <code>date</code> format checking, all values are > > passed as strings to the hypervisor driver. > > </dd> > > + <dt><code>oemStrings</code></dt> > > + <dd> > > + This is block 11 of SMBIOS. This element should appear once and > > + can have multiple <code>entry</code> child elements, each providing > > + arbitrary string data. There are no restrictions on what data can > > + be provided in the entries, however, if the data is intended to be > > s/, however/; however Using a ; instead of , before "however" is rather wierd / unusual. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
