[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] qemu: SMBIOS passing support

[Avi Kivity]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I can't help thinking that if we wish to provide metadata to guest OS
> like system model, serial number, etc, then we'd be better off using
> explicit named flags (or QEMU config file settings once that exists)
>
>   -system-serial 2141241521  -system-model "Some Virtual Machine"
>
> and have QEMU generate the neccessary SMBIOS data, or other equivalent 
> data tables to suit the non-PC based machine types for which SMBIOS
> is not relevant.
>   

-smbios serial=blah,model=bleach ?


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