[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:22:54PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:37:01AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   
>>> The backdoor interface is deprecated (from a VMware perspective) and 
>>> is  pretty terrible.  I'll go through and do a more thorough review 
>>> of the  patches Chris posted but one thing I already know I'd like to 
>>> see the      
>> Review my last submission I linked above then too.
>>   
>
> Applying the -uuid support without making use of that uuid anywhere  
> isn't very useful.
>
You can read it from monitor, so management software can benefit from
it. And this will reduce my patch backlog :)

>>> UUID plumbed through the SMBIOS tables for x86.  That's a requirement 
>>> in  my mind for adding a -uuid option.  I see no harm in also 
>>> supporting the  backdoor interface but the primary way to expose a 
>>> UUID should be SMBIOS.
>>>     
>> I am not sure I understand what you mean. Currently SMBIOS tables are
>> built by bochs bios and UUID backdoor is needed to fill in missing info.
>>   
>
> But that patch that got pushed into the Bochs BIOS was wrong.
>
> So here's what I'd like to see in order to apply these patches:
>
> 1) A new patch to the Bochs BIOS that used CMOS to pass a UUID (or  
> possibly an OF data structure as Blue Swirl suggested--although CMOS is  
> safer).
We will run out of space in CMOS quickly if we will use it as qemu->bios
communication channel. Is passing pointer to memory location (Blue Swirl
suggestion) acceptable solution by everyone?

--
                        Gleb.