On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 02:27:11PM +0100, Antoine Damhet wrote: > Hello, > > We recently found out that some softwares are effectively crashing > when they detect qemu's `OEM ID` or `OEM table ID` in the ACPI tables. > > I see no reason not to expose the setting to the user/command-line. A > previous patch has been submitted in 2015[1] but did not get through > because (if I understand correctly) using the IDs on the `SLIC`, `BXPC` > and `RSDT` tables were enough at the time. > > If you agree, I am willing to forward port the patches of M. Jones but I > need to ask how it would work `Signed-Off`-wise ?
On this point, the patch I sent was actually written by Michael Tokarev, I was only trying to get them upstream. Rich. > Thanks in advance for your time, > > PS: the softwares will crash if the signature is found in any of the > exposed tables. > > [1]: > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1441220618-4750-1-git-send-email-rjo...@redhat.com/ > > -- > Antoine 'xdbob' Damhet -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
