[libvirt] [PATCH] udev: Don't try to dump DMI on non-intel archs

[Eric Blake]

On 07/19/2011 09:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> But do we also need to patch src/util/sysinfo.c, which makes callouts to
> dmidecode(1)? That is, if libsmbios is arch-specific, then I imagine
> that so is dmidecode, and do we gracefully handle dmidecode failures in
> that case?

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it:

on x86 architectures with newer kernels, the kernel is starting to 
provide various SMBIOS information to user space via sysfs, without 
requiring the running of root-only dmidecode.  We need to teach libvirt 
to try that method, so that qemu:///session can take advantage of 
copying host SMBIOS information to the guest.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2011-July/msg00012.html

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