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| author | Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> | 2012-12-11 17:38:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> | 2012-12-19 18:54:33 +0000 |
| commit | 095759640dd48e2ea470dc160726a3a8501800a1 (patch) | |
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| parent | 084ff0495dc014b9cc2215551a9b1575eeb1dda5 (diff) | |
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Export custom SMBIOS info to QEMU/KVM guests
Provide custom SMBIOS data to QEMU/KVM guests, so that they can
reliably detect the fact that they're running on an OpenStack
platform. Guest OS vendors often need info about the host
virtualization platform to apply the correct billing process
for virtual machines.
Looking at 'dmidecode' in the guest will show something akin
to
...snip...
Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: OpenStack Foundation
Product Name: OpenStack Nova
Version: 2013.1-dev
Serial Number: 35363738-393a-3b3c-3d3e-3f4041424344
UUID: 2BAFB510-B7DB-4117-A609-452B6E2BD718
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: Not Specified
Family: Not Specified
...snip...
Change-Id: I5cdd75cd06ee872e5665f06926951b340ff2f57f
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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