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[Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/13] hw/arm/virt: smbios: inform guest of kvm


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/13] hw/arm/virt: smbios: inform guest of kvm
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:57:58 +0100

From: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>

ARM/AArch64 KVM guests don't have any way to identify
themselves as KVM guests (x86 guests use a CPUID leaf). Now, we
could discuss all sorts of reasons why guests shouldn't need to
know that, but then there's always some case where it'd be
nice... Anyway, now that we have SMBIOS tables in ARM guests,
it's easy for the guest to know that it's a QEMU instance. This
patch takes that one step further, also identifying KVM, when
appropriate. Again, we could debate why generally nothing
should care whether it's of type QEMU or QEMU/KVM, but again,
sometimes it's nice to know...

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Wei Huang <address@hidden>
Message-id: address@hidden
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
---
 hw/arm/virt.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
index d25d6cf..5ac5178 100644
--- a/hw/arm/virt.c
+++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
@@ -884,12 +884,17 @@ static void virt_build_smbios(VirtGuestInfo *guest_info)
     FWCfgState *fw_cfg = guest_info->fw_cfg;
     uint8_t *smbios_tables, *smbios_anchor;
     size_t smbios_tables_len, smbios_anchor_len;
+    const char *product = "QEMU Virtual Machine";
 
     if (!fw_cfg) {
         return;
     }
 
-    smbios_set_defaults("QEMU", "QEMU Virtual Machine",
+    if (kvm_enabled()) {
+        product = "KVM Virtual Machine";
+    }
+
+    smbios_set_defaults("QEMU", product,
                         "1.0", false, true, SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_30);
 
     smbios_get_tables(NULL, 0, &smbios_tables, &smbios_tables_len,
-- 
1.9.1




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