Re: [DISCUSSION] Allow ACPI default OEM ID and OEM table ID fields to be set.

[Antoine Damhet]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 08:29:41AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 01:50:12PM +0100, Antoine Damhet wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 06:09:11AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:13:22PM +0100, Antoine Damhet wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:04:55AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 01:32:51PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:27:11PM +0100, Antoine Damhet wrote:

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> Exactly so I ask myself whether it's worth it, their next version
> will check CPUID and then where are we?

Then I guess they will have to admit that they are purposefully blocking
VM use and it's not our problem anymore.

> But maybe it's time we just changed all these IDs to e.g. QEMU.
> We are very far from bochs generated tables by now.

That's a good idea, but I still think they should be user override-able
(unless you think it would be a heavy maintenance burden, in that case
you are king in your castle :D )

> Question is will this cause annoyances with e.g. windows guests?

Windows 10 guests seems unaffected, I cannot say for the other
versions/servers editions.

> Igor what's your experience with this?

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Antoine 'xdbob' Damhet