Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 3] Optionally link against libuuid if present

[Fabrice Bellard]

Filip Navara wrote:
> Hi Ryan & others,
> 
> now I have been holding a SMBIOS patch on my hard disk for way to long it
> seems. I used a different approach from yours, so I decided to publish it
> for review or further ideas. What I did was to modify the bochs bios to
> produce the SMBIOS tables and I get the UUID using VMware backdoor port from
> the virtual machine.
> 
> Attached are just the changed files, creating a patch will take a while
> because it's against VERY OLD version of the sources.
> 
> Oh, it also contains ACPI patch for the processor descriptors which was
> needed for some Windows versions and Darwin. Similar patch was used in KVM
> before, but this one dynamically detects the number of CPUs.

I strongly prefer your solution (Bochs BIOS) compared to modifying QEMU:
I already spent a lot of time moving the ACPI tables and other stuff to
the Bochs BIOS just for that !

Regards,

Fabrice.