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 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
