Re: [Xen-devel] interest SMBIOS on domU's

["Andrew Ball" <anball@xxxxxxxxx>]

Makes sense.  During the code review, we decided that it would be best
for me to fix some messy style issues before sending out the patches.
If anybody really is aching to see them, I'd appreciate if they sent
me an email about it.

Peace!
Andrew

On 5/16/06, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is anyone else interested in SMBIOS tables for domU's?
> > (These are the things that dmidecode reads -- they're often
> > used by systems management software and occasionally used by drivers.)
>
> Yep, certainly wouldn't hurt to have the domain builder drop down some
> SMBIOS tables.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> > I've been working on a patch for fully virtualized domU's for
> > some time now and am curious about who else might care about
> > it and what types they think make sense.
> >
> > A lot of the types make very little sense, like system
> > chassis, but the system information one that contains the
> > system UUID (universally unique identifier) is crucial for
> > supporting arbitrary OSes in HVM domU's for some systems
> > management software.  The idea is to correlate domU's with
> > dom0's by UUID's of the domU's.
> >
> > I'll try to send out the patches soon.  I hope they're not
> > too ugly to stomach -- it's been difficult for me to make
> > something like this elegant.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> > Andrew
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