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

[Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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