Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 493413
Looking for Manufacturer/ProductName/Serial Number to be reported by dmidecode within KVM instance
Last modified: 2010-10-23 04:45:28 EDT
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:
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 """
/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
Updating status and changing to the correct component