[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/8] option rom loadingoverhaul.

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 07:24:43PM +0100, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> > Does any OS (Windows?) depend on the tables the bios creates (e.g. smbios)
> > for licensing? It would be ugly if Windows wants you to re-activate after a 
> > reboot
> > following a migration to newer qemu version and therefore possibly changed 
> > tables
> > due to newer bios.
> I am not talking about OS visible stuff.

How do you want to avoid OS visible changes if the bios is reread on each 
reset? People
can upgrade/change their bios in the pc-bios directory and bad things could 
happen if its
reloaded on each reset.

- Sebastian