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Bug 493413

Summary: Looking for Manufacturer/ProductName/Serial Number to be reported by dmidecode within KVM instance
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Andrew_Blatt
Component: kvmAssignee: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Description Andrew_Blatt 2009-04-01 16:56:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
dmidecode shows "Not Specified" for System Information (Manufacturer/Product Name/Serial Number).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
#rpm -q -a |grep kvm
kvm-83-9.el5ovirt
etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-8.el5ovirt
kmod-kvm-83-9.el5ovirt
kvm-qemu-img-83-9.el5ovirt


How reproducible:
Built a KVM with RH 5.3 and ran dmidecode.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create kvm instance
2. install RH 5.3
3. ran dmidecode
  
Actual results:
[root@elabvhost124 ~]# dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
Not Specified
[root@elabvhost124 ~]# dmidecode -s system-product-name
Not Specified
[root@elabvhost124 ~]# dmidecode -s system-serial-number
Not Specified


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Chris Van Hoof 2009-06-11 18:22:45 UTC 
Hi Andrew -- It looks like this was changed in later releases (through another bug):

"""
dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
Red Hat
dmidecode -s system-product-name
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor
dmidecode -s system-serial-number
34343831-3833-5553-4538-32304E363952 
"""
Comment 2 Karl Hastings 2009-07-09 15:00:12 UTC 
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --help
...
-smbios file=binary
                Load SMBIOS entry from binary file
-smbios type=0[,vendor=str][,version=str][,date=str][,release=%d.%d]
                Specify SMBIOS type 0 fields
-smbios type=1[,manufacturer=str][,product=str][,version=str][,serial=str]
              [,uuid=uuid][,sku=str][,family=str]
...

The results from C#1 were generated using a commandline similar to:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -smbios
type=1,manufacturer="Red Hat",product="Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hypervisor",serial=34343831-3833-5553-4538-32304E363952
Comment 4 Dor Laor 2009-11-10 15:47:20 UTC 
Updating status and changing to the correct component