On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 15:06 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > BTW, your email client is possibly mis-configured - your mail > came through with "From: shalini <shal...@imap.linux.ibm.com>" > and attempting to reply to that gets an error saying that > 'imap.linux.ibm.com' does not exist. > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 02:55:27PM +0100, shalini wrote: > > On 2025-03-05 17:06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 01:04:47PM +0100, Shalini Chellathurai Saroja > > > wrote: > > > > Add Control-Program Identification (CPI) to the QEMU Object > > > > Model (QOM). The CPI identifiers provide information about > > > > the guest operating system. The CPI identifiers are: > > > > system type, system name, system level and sysplex name. > > > > > > > > The system type provides the OS type of the guest (e.g. LINUX). > > > > The system name provides the name of the guest (e.g. TESTVM). > > > > The system level provides the distribution and kernel version > > > > of the guest OS (e.g. 0x50e00). > > > > The sysplex name provides the sysplex name of the guest > > > > (e.g. SYSPLEX). > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Shalini Chellathurai Saroja <shal...@linux.ibm.com> > > > > --- > > > > hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > include/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.h | 8 ++++++++ > > > > qapi/machine.json | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+)
[...] > > > > > +# @system-name: system name of Linux instance > > > > > > What is a system name ? Is that a hostname, or is that something > > > else ? > > > > > > > Yes, it is the hostname of the guest virtual machine. Is it? Seems to me it it just a user configurable name of the system. It's empty on the two LPARs I checked. > > Lets rename it to 'system-hostname' to be unambiguous. In any case "system name" is the established name for this value on s390x. > > > With regards, > Daniel -- IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Wolfgang Wendt Geschäftsführung: David Faller Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294
