Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] qga: report serial ID and device node

[Tomáš Golembiovský]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 08:52:37 -0500
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 08/07/2018 05:51 AM, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> > On Linux the functionality depends on libudev.
> > 
> > Example from Linux:
> > 
> >      {
> >        "name": "dm-2",
> >        "mountpoint": "/",
> >        ...
> >        "disk": [
> >          {
> >            "serial": "SAMSUNG_MZ7LN512HCHP-000L1_S1ZKNXAG822493",
> >            "dev": "/dev/sda2",
> >            ...
> >          }
> >        ],
> >      }
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <address@hidden>
> > ---  
> 
> > +++ b/qga/commands-posix.c
> > @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ extern char **environ;
> >   #include <sys/socket.h>
> >   #include <net/if.h>
> >   #include <sys/statvfs.h>
> > +#include <libudev.h>  
> 
> Is libudev universally available on BSD systems and always preinstalled 
> on Linux systems, or does this need a configure probe?

The code is specific to Linux. I couldn't find portable way of querying
the serial number.

libudev is part of systemd, so it should generally be there. But I
suppose we should not break on systems that don't use it. I'll add
configure check for it.

    Tomas

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Tomáš Golembiovský <address@hidden>