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.
