The OEM strings table in SMBIOS allows the vendor to pass arbitrary
strings into the guest OS. This can be used as a way to pass data to an
application like cloud-init, or potentially as an alternative to the
kernel command line for OS installers where you can't modify the install
ISO image to change the kernel args.
As an example, consider if cloud-init and anaconda supported OEM strings
you could use something like
<oemStrings>
<entry>cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/</entry>
<entry>anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os</entry>
</oemStrings>
use of a application specific prefix as illustrated above is
recommended, but not mandated, so that an app can reliably identify
which of the many OEM strings are targetted at it.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220527
This type of information defines attributes of a system
baseboard. With one exception: board type is yet not implemented
in qemu so it's not introduced here either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Move all the system_* fields into a separate struct. Not only this
simplifies the code a bit it also helps us to identify whether BIOS
info is present. We don't have to check all the four variables for
being not-NULL, but we can just check the pointer to the struct.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Move all the bios_* fields into a separate struct. Not only this
simplifies the code a bit it also helps us to identify whether BIOS
info is present. We don't have to check all the four variables for
being not-NULL, but we can just check the pointer to the struct.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In "src/util/" there are many enumeration (enum) declarations.
Sometimes, it's better using a typedef for variable types,
function types and other usages. Other enumeration will be
changed to typedef's in the future.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
