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 majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
