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Re: [Xen-devel] approach for heavily hw-oriented values in smbios for gu

To: Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] approach for heavily hw-oriented values in smbios for guests
From: "Andrew D. Ball" <aball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:17:48 -0500
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As far as I know, SMBIOS data reflects the state of the system at boot
time only.  No updates after any sort of hot-plugging.  However, I
distantly remember some possibility of updating something, maybe a power
state.

However, the format of the data is so fixed, that dynamic updates, like
adding vCPUs are infeasible.

Peace.
Andrew


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 18:32 +0000, Alan wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:54:36 -0500
> "Andrew D. Ball" <aball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > However, even though the SMBIOS 2.4 standard specifies lots of places
> > where a value of 'unknown' is syntactically valid, the comformance
> > guidelines require a ton of very hardware oriented things to be fully
> > specified.
> 
> Xen is just very hot-pluggable. I guess you either lie or change it to
> match the hardware each time. Which is more correct unfortunately appears
> to depend upon the desired answer but I'd favour the real hardware - for
> diagnostics.
> 
> Alan
> 


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