RE: <qemu:commandline> ignored ?

[Marc <Marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there something else which is a prerequisite to 'qemu:commandline'
> but if yes and I'm missing those, why would not then 'virsh' and/or
> 'virtqemud' say something?

No what you have looks ok, this is what I have as a test and is working ok. You can try and these to see if something is shown in the guest.

  <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/>
    <qemu:arg value='host,hv_time,-hypervisor'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>
    <qemu:arg value='type=0,vendor=LENOVO,version=FBKTB4AUS,date=07/01/2015,release=1.180'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>
    <qemu:arg value='type=1,manufacturer=LENOVO,product=30AH001GPB,version=&quot;ThinkStation P300&quot;,serial=S4M62281,uuid=1ecefe02-f1b6-4bf8-a925-c9f4ae512209,sku=LENOVO_MT_30AH,family=P300'/>
  </qemu:commandline>
</domain>