[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 0/2 v3] virtinst: Pass SMBios information to guest

[Cole Robinson]

On 09/06/2016 06:12 PM, Charles Arnold wrote:
> This patchset introduces a command line option to pass smbios information to
> the guest. It adds an smbios mode sub-element to the guest's os element. The
> mode attribute must be specified and is either "emulate" (let the hypervisor
> generate all values), "host" (copy all of Block 0 and Block 1, except for the
> UUID, from the host's SMBIOS values), or "sysinfo" (use the values in the
> sysinfo element). If not specified, the hypervisor default is used.
> 
> If sysinfo is specified in the smbios mode field then an additional sysinfo
> element is added to the guest defining the SMBios information. The sysinfo
> element has a mandatory attribute type of "smbios". The smbios information
> comes as three sub-types, "bios", "system", and "baseBoard" where each of
> these types contains sub-elements .
> 
> Incorrectly supplied entries for the bios, system or baseBoard blocks will be
> ignored without error except for uuid validation and date format checking. All
> values are passed as strings to the hypervisor driver.
> 
> Examples:
>     --sysinfo emulate
>     --sysinfo host
>     --sysinfo type=smbios,bios_vendor=Vendor_Inc.,bios_version=1.2.3-abc,...
>     --sysinfo type=smbios,system_manufacturer=System_Corp.,system_product=codename,...
>     --sysinfo type=smbios,baseBoard_manufacturer=Baseboard_Corp.,baseBoard_product=codename,...
> 
> Charles Arnold (2):
>   Add classes for defining SMBios information in a guest. This
>     includes adding an smbios sub-element to the guest os element    
>     and a sysinfo sub-element to the guest. The sysinfo sub-element    
>     contains the SMBios specific data.
>   Add the --sysinfo option to allow passing SMBios information to
>     the guest. Also update the appropriate files with test cases.
> 
>  .../compare/virt-install-singleton-config-2.xml    |  52 +++++++++++
>  tests/clitest.py                                   |   3 +
>  virtinst/cli.py                                    | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  virtinst/guest.py                                  |   4 +-
>  virtinst/osxml.py                                  |   3 +-
>  virtinst/sysinfo.py                                |  88 ++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 virtinst/sysinfo.py
> 

Thanks, made some minor changes and pushed. Sorry for the delay!

- Cole