Am 27.02.24 um 16:47 schrieb Igor Mammedov: > Windows (10) bootloader when running on top of SeaBIOS, fails to find > > SMBIOSv3 entry point. Tracing it shows that it looks for v2 anchor markers > > only and not v3. Tricking it into believing that entry point is found > > lets Windows successfully locate and parse SMBIOSv3 tables. Whether it > > will be fixed on Windows side is not clear so here goes a workaround. > > > > Idea is to try build v2 tables if QEMU configuration permits, > > and fallback to v3 tables otherwise. That will mask Windows issue > > form majority of users. > > However if VM configuration can't be described (typically large VMs) > > by v2 tables, QEMU will use SMBIOSv3 and Windows will hit the issue > > again. In this case complain to Microsoft and/or use UEFI instead of > > SeaBIOS (requires reinstall). > > > > Default compat setting of smbios-entry-point-type after series > > for pc/q35 machines: > > * 9.0-newer: 'auto' > > * 8.1-8.2: '64' > > * 8.0-older: '32' > > > > Fixes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2008 >
Thank you! I'm happy to confirm that this series works around the issue :) Best Regards, Fiona
