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).
Regards,
Daniel
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