Re: [libvirt] Revamped Smbios/Sysinfo support

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:36:41PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > This patch set implements a new way to store system informations and > pass them to the domain, it's modelled on the SMBIOS support in > hypervisors and allow to override those informations in domains: > > The simplest is the use of: > > <smbios mode="host"/> > > in which case the domain will try to inherit those values from > the Host own values, the classical use case is the use of OEM'ed > Windows versions where one need to export SMBIOS informations from > the host to the guest. > But the <sysinfo> construct allows to define those informations, > for example: > > <sysinfo type="smbios"> > <bios> > <entry name="vendor">QEmu/KVM</entry> > <entry name="version">0.13</entry> > </bios> > <system> > <entry name="manufacturer">Fedora</entry> > <entry name="product">Virt-Manager</entry> > <entry name="version">0.8.2-3.fc14</entry> > <entry name="serial">32dfcb37-5af1-552b-357c-be8c3aa38310</entry> > <entry name="uuid">c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</entry> > </system> > </sysinfo> > <smbios mode="sysinfo"/> The <sysinfo> is fine at the top level, but the <smbios> element should be kept within the <os> element, because that is the container we have for all BIOS related config parameters, and whether you can use <smbios> or not is conditional on <os type='hvm'/> (ie you can't use it with type=xen or type=exe).