Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] udev: Don't try to dump DMI on non-intel archs

On 07/19/2011 09:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > But do we also need to patch src/util/sysinfo.c, which makes callouts to > dmidecode(1)? That is, if libsmbios is arch-specific, then I imagine > that so is dmidecode, and do we gracefully handle dmidecode failures in > that case? Oh, and while I'm thinking about it: on x86 architectures with newer kernels, the kernel is starting to provide various SMBIOS information to user space via sysfs, without requiring the running of root-only dmidecode. We need to teach libvirt to try that method, so that qemu:///session can take advantage of copying host SMBIOS information to the guest. https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2011-July/msg00012.html