Bug 994490

Summary:	Set per-machine-type SMBIOS strings
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Markus Armbruster <armbru>
Component:	qemu-kvm	Assignee:	Markus Armbruster <armbru>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	acathrow, juzhang, knoel, michen, qiguo, virt-maint, xfu
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	-kvm-1.5.3-14.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-06-13 10:32:03 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	841379, 895959, 987757

Description Markus Armbruster 2013-08-07 11:40:00 UTC

Description of problem:
Contents of SMBIOS has regressed from RHEL-6:

Table 1                 RHEL-7          RHEL-6
System Manufacturer:    Bochs           Red Hat
System Product Name:    Bochs           KVM
System Version:         <none>          <machine type>
System Family:          <none>          Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Note: RHEL-6 additionally changes BIOS Vendor from Bochs to QEMU in
table 0 for RHEL-5 machine types, but those aren't in RHEL-7 so far.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. For all machine types common to RHEL-6 and RHEL-7: start guest without any -smbios options, run "dmidecode -t 0 -t 1" in guest

Actual results:
RHEL-6 and RHEL-7 host produce different output for same machine type

Expected results:
Produce the same output

Additional info:
See qemu-kvm-rhel6 commits
68c63bd per-machine-type smbios Type 1 smbios values
8e0d71e Set SMBIOS vendor to QEMU for RHEL5 machine types.

Comment 1 Markus Armbruster 2013-08-07 11:41:57 UTC

The qemu-kvm-rhel6 commits quoted above are for bug 605704 and bug 614377.

Comment 3 Miroslav Rezanina 2013-11-06 11:27:14 UTC

Fix included in -kvm-1.5.3-14.el7

Comment 5 Qian Guo 2013-12-17 11:10:09 UTC

Verified this bug with qemu-kvm-1.5.3-21.el7.x86_64
Steps:
1.Boot rhel7 guest with machine types:
-M pc
-M q35
-M rhel6.5.0
-M rhel6.4.0
-M rhel6.3.0
-M rhel6.2.0
-M rhel6.1.0
-M rhel6.0.0

# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm  -cpu Penryn -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -name rhel7 -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=slew -device ahci,id=ahci1 -drive file=/home/RHEL-7.0-20131127.1.qcow2_v3,if=none,id=drive-ahci,format=qcow2,aio=native,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device ide-drive,bus=ahci1.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ahci,id=sata-disk -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon1 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=0 -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=0 -monitor stdio -serial unix:/tmp/ttyS0,server,nowait -qmp tcp:0:4444,server,nowait -spice disable-ticketing,port=5930,seamless-migration=on -vga std  -M rhel6.0.0 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=54:52:1a:23:0b:01

2.Run "dmidecode -t 0 -t 1" in guest with every machine types

Result:check all the prints of the types:
1) .For rhel6.0.0
# cat rhel600
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 6.0.0 PC
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2) .For rhel6.1.0

# cat rhel610
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 6.1.0 PC
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

3) .For rhel6.2.0

# cat rhel620
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 6.2.0 PC
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

4) .For rhel6.3.0

# cat rhel630
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 6.3.0 PC
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

5) .For rhel6.4.0

# cat rhel640
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 6.4.0 PC
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux


6) .For rhel6.5.0

# cat rhel650
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 6.5.0 PC
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux


7) .For q35 

# cat q35 
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL-7.0.0 PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8) .For pc
 
# cat pc 
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.4 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: Bochs
	Version: Bochs
	Release Date: 01/01/2011
	Address: 0xE8000
	Runtime Size: 96 kB
	ROM Size: 64 kB
	Characteristics:
		BIOS characteristics not supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
	BIOS Revision: 1.0

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: Red Hat
	Product Name: KVM
	Version: RHEL 7.0.0 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
	Serial Number: Not Specified
	UUID: Not Settable
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Red Hat Enterprise Linux


So according above, contents of SMBIOS are same with rhel6:
System Manufacturer:             Red Hat
System Product Name:             KVM
System Version:                  <machine type>
System Family:                   Red Hat Enterprise Linux


So this bug is fixed by qemu-kvm-1.5.3-21.el7.x86_64

Comment 7 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 10:32:03 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you have further questions about the request.