API to change the vendor of IDE disk

[Alex]

Dear Qemu Genius




This is zaifeng (wzf_develo...@foxmail.com) (WeChat ID: QemuKVM).

Yes, I am a cloud engineer. (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧




May I ask you some questions about Qemu?




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Here is the problem:




If you use IDE disk on a Windows VM, "QEMU HARDDISK" could be found from device 
manager.




Some applications will refuse to boot on virtualized environment by detecting 
if the disk name contains "QEMU" string. I have no idea why, maybe they worried 
about copy-vm = copy-license?




I know for virtio-scsi disks, it's possible to change it by adding </vendor&gt; 
</product&gt; </serial&gt; in libvirt-xml. However it does not work for IDE 
disk.







Simply&nbsp;detach&nbsp;or convenrt that IDE&nbsp;disk to 
virtio-scsi&nbsp;solves the problem.

However, we hope that our customer could use IDE disk without any configuration.




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So.....

Here is my questions:




Q1: How to change the vendor-name of a IDE disk?

Is there any API(s) to config it?

I can't find the way from libvirt-doc.

​In Qemu code, I seems that "QEMU HARDDISK" is just by default, and 
it's&nbsp;configurable.







Q2: Why add&nbsp;</vendor&gt; </product&gt; </serial&gt; in libvirt-xml doesn't 
work for IDE disk?

Why only virtio-scsi disk support this kind of config?

Is there any hint? story? background? reason?




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I hope any Qemu Genius could answer my question!

Qemu project push the human-race forward, and I want to be that part of 
progress!




Kind Regards,

zaifeng.&nbsp;ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

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