The cloud-init program currently allows fetching of its data by repurposing of
the 'system' type 'serial' field. This is a clear abuse of the serial field that
would clash with other valid usage a virt management app might have for that
field.
Fortunately the SMBIOS defines an "OEM Strings" table whose puporse is to allow
exposing of arbitrary vendor specific strings to the operating system. This is
perfect for use with cloud-init, or as a way to pass arguments to OS installers
such as anaconda.
This patch makes it easier to support this with QEMU. e.g.
$QEMU -smbios type=11,value=Hello,value=World,value=Tricky,,value=test
Which results in the guest seeing dmidecode data
Handle 0x0E00, DMI type 11, 5 bytes
OEM Strings
String 1: Hello
String 2: World
String 3: Tricky,value=test
It is suggested that any app wanting to make use of this OEM strings capability
for accepting data from the host mgmt layer should use its name as a string
prefix. e.g. to expose OEM strings targetting both cloud init and anaconda in
parallel the mgmt app could set
$QEMU -smbios type=11,value=cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/,\
value=anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os
which would appear as
Handle 0x0E00, DMI type 11, 5 bytes
OEM Strings
String 1: cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/
String 2: anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os
Use of such string prefixes means the app won't have to care which string slot
its data appears in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
-smbios command line options were accepted but silently ignored on
TARGET_ARM, due to a test for TARGET_I386 in arch_init.c.
Copy the mechanism of hw/pci/pci-stub.c to implement an smbios-stub
instead, enabled for all targets without CONFIG_SMBIOS.
Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20161222151828.28292-1-leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Add an IPMI table entry to the SMBIOS.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This patch adds support for SMBIOS 3.0 entry point. When caller invokes
smbios_set_defaults(), it can specify entry point as 2.1 or 3.0. Then
smbios_get_tables() will return the entry point table in right format.
Acked-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Tested-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1440615870-9518-2-git-send-email-wei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To share smbios among different architectures, this patch moves SMBIOS
code (smbios.c and smbios.h) from x86 specific folders into new
hw/smbios directories. As a result, CONFIG_SMBIOS=y is defined in
x86 default config files.
Acked-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Tested-by: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
