Hi Folks,
I'm running KVM on Debian squeeze. I have some requirements on a new VM to provide customised BIOS vendor/product strings, from my experience so far this is accomplish with the sysinfo/smbios support. So I have added these to the XML file for my VM.
I found 'virsh edit' is the recommended way to make changes to a VM configuration, I find the XML file is not referenced at boot, it is only saved to with 'virsh dumpxml'. 'virsh edit' will update both areas - hypervisor and XML file.
Unfortunately the changes I make for smbios and sysinfo (as below) while editing don't appear to be accepted when saving with 'virsh edit'. After saving I receive "Domain HMC XML configuration edited." but the XML file remains unmodified. I wonder if they are perhaps not supported with virsh edit yet?
<sysinfo type='smbios'>
<bios>
<entry name='vendor'>xxx xxx</entry>
<entry name='version'>xxx</entry>
</bios>
<system>
<entry name='product'>xxx</entry>
<entry name='version'>xxx</entry>
<entry name='manufacturer'>xxx xxx</entry>
</system>
</sysinfo>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.12'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='cdrom'/>
<smbios mode='sysinfo'/>
</os>
Thanks in advance,
Derek
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