similar to: [PATCH v4 03/04] HVM firmware passthrough SMBIOS processing

SMBIOS table pass-through is useful in supporting vendor/OEM specific functionality in HVM guests. There are numerous OEM software packages and drivers that depend on having certain SMBIOS tables surfaced in a guest for their proper functioning. This also includes drivers and software needed for device pass-through. This series of patches introduces support for SMBIOS pass-through in the

Xen control tools support for loading the firmware passthrough blocks during domain construction. SMBIOS and ACPI blocks are passed in using the new xc_hvm_build_args structure. Each block is read and loaded into the new domain address space behind the HVMLOADER image. The base address for the two blocks is returned as an out parameter to the caller via the args structure. Signed-off-by: Ross

ACPI table passthrough support allowing additional static tables and SSDTs (AML code) to be loaded. These additional tables are added at the end of the secondary table list in the RSDT/XSDT tables. Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Add public HVM definitions header for firmware passthrough support (including comment describing the feature''s use). In addition this header is used to collect the various xenstore string values that are used in HVMLOADER. Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org

The series "HVM firmware passthrough" series in Jan 2013 from Ross Philipson cause two regressions for HVM guests which sadly found their way into the Xen 4.3 release. The first regression causes an incorrect count of tables to be placed in the main header, and can be seen by running dmidecode in any applicable HVM domain. The second regression found its way into the public ABI, making

This patch introduces support for two new parameters in libxl: smbios_firmware=<path_to_smbios_structures_file> acpi_firmware=<path_to_acpi_tables_file> The changes are primarily in the domain building code where the firmware files are read and passed to libxc for loading into the new guest. After the domain building call to libxc, the addresses for the loaded blobs are returned and

Add public HVM definitions header for xenstore strings used in HVMLOADER. In addition this header describes the use of the firmware passthrough values set using xenstore. Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Utility routines in hvmloader for SMBIOS table validation. Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

ACPI table pass through support allowing additional static tables and SSDTs (AML code) to be loaded. These additional tables are added at the end of the secondary table list in the RSDT/XSDT tables. Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

This patch introduces support for two new parameters in libxl: smbios_firmware=<path_to_smbios_structures_file> acpi_firmware=<path_to_acpi_tables_file> The changes are primarily in the domain building code where the firmware files are read and passed to libxc for loading into the new guest. After the domain building call to libxc, the addresses for the loaded blobs are returned and

I have pulled a recent (today''s) clone of staging/xen-unstable.hg and I get a failure when trying to create a domain with xend/xm. The failure I get is: Error: (''<domain GUID>'', ''VM_metrics'') I have traced the problem down to where the pci = [ ''02:00.0'' ] parameter (which is the value in my case) from my configuration

[HVM] [SMBIOS] Duplicate UUID into serial number in SMBIOS tables. Windows zeroes out the UUID in the SMBIOS tables, but the identifier is often needed by systems management code. Duplicating the UUID as the virtual system''s serial number should help. Signed-off-by: Andrew D. Ball <aball@us.ibm.com> diff -r 6a8204e4619d -r f3a3ee53050e tools/firmware/hvmloader/smbios.c ---

Add code to generate SMBIOS tables to hvmloader. Signed-off-by: Andrew D. Ball <aball@us.ibm.com> diff -r 1d817bfc5ed9 tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile --- a/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile Fri Aug 11 14:22:54 2006 +0100 +++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/Makefile Fri Aug 11 14:55:18 2006 -0400 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DEFINES =-DDEBUG DEFINES =-DDEBUG XENINC =-I$(XEN_ROOT)/tools/libxc

The following patches are a cleaned up version of the HVM SMBIOS patches I submitted last Friday. Differences include (1) SMBIOS is no longer optional for HVM domU''s. (2) The refactoring I did of hvmloader wasn''t really necessary, so I got rid of it. (3) The patches have been tested on changeset 10671:b20580cf7fc1bfe5119597bb5b576cdd020551d5 (4) The versions of strcpy() and

This series of patches adds support for SMBIOS to HVM domU''s. This is needed by many systems management applications, most often to get a useful UUID inside of an HVM domU. They have been tested on changeset 10486:5610d916ad1be231bd6b6c7ae26665374623a90c of xen-unstable. Any comments or help would be greatly appreciated. Andrew ===== sample output from dmidecode: # dmidecode 2.7

[HVM] Pick up SMBIOS entry point in the ROMBIOS. Signed-off-by: Andrew D. Ball <aball@us.ibm.com> diff -r 1d817bfc5ed9 tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c --- a/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c Fri Aug 11 14:22:54 2006 +0100 +++ b/tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c Fri Aug 11 14:55:22 2006 -0400 @@ -9443,6 +9443,43 @@ rom_scan_increment: mov ds, ax ret +#ifdef HVMASSIST + +; Copy the

HDT 0.3.4 has just been released. Since April, due to some important changes, HDT was no more in sync with Syslinux. The 0.3.4 release will solve that major issue and will be part of Syslinux-3.83-pre8. Beside this syncing with Syslinux, this release aims at solving disk's detection bugs and improving the DMI reporting. I would like to thank pam for that though work. He did most (who

HDT 0.3.4 has just been released. Since April, due to some important changes, HDT was no more in sync with Syslinux. The 0.3.4 release will solve that major issue and will be part of Syslinux-3.83-pre8. Beside this syncing with Syslinux, this release aims at solving disk's detection bugs and improving the DMI reporting. I would like to thank pam for that though work. He did most (who

OK, cut two of the iommu reserved memory issue patch as we discussed... This patch adds a boolean boot parameter to xen to allow inclusive mapping of all memory below 4GB to the iommu mappings for dom0. The unusable ranges and memory occupied by xen are still excluded. The parameter is "iommu_inclusive_mapping=1" and is off by default. In addition to the parameter, a warning is also

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 06:07:15PM -0200, Leandro Becker via Syslinux wrote: > Hello folks, > > There is a way to get the system serial number from SMBIOS and pass it > as HTTP query string to get the kernel and initrd? > Something like this: > > LABEL OS Download > MENU LABEL Clonezilla > MENU INDENT 1 > KERNEL