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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 05:34:50PM +0100, Antoine Damhet wrote:
> 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:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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.

unaffected yes, but what about things like reactivation,
warning about system changes at boot or reinstalling
drivers? changing acpi significantly does this sometimes ...

> > Igor what's your experience with this?
> 
> [...]
> 
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> Antoine 'xdbob' Damhet