[CentOS-virt] qemu-kvm SLIC acpitable workaround of Windows bug

Tue Aug 18 12:42:28 UTC 2015
Jean-Marc LIGER <jean-marc.liger at parisdescartes.fr>

Le 31/07/2015 17:50, Gena Makhomed a écrit :
> On 31.07.2015 10:19, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248758
>
>> Have you checked 3.5.4 RC or CentOS Virt SIG[2]
>> to see if the bug has been fixed in latest qemu-kvm-ev ?
>>
>> [1] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/
>> [2] http://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-kvm-common-testing/x86_64/os/
>
> Patch mjt-set-oem-in-rsdt-like-slic.diff with workaround
> not included into qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.6.1.src.rpm
>
> Bug not in qemu, bug in windows - windows reject SLIC table
> if oem_id and oem_table_id from SLIC table and from RSDT table
> is different, and this windows bug prevent any virt-p2v migration
> of OEM windows from hardware node to VM inside CentOS/RHEL server,
> even with config
>
>   <qemu:commandline>
>     <qemu:arg value='-acpitable'/>
>     <qemu:arg value='file=/path/to/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SLIC'/>
>   </qemu:commandline>
>
> because during acpi tables rebuild qemu-kvm from qemu-kvm-ev
> create RSDT table with BOCHS oem_id and BXPCRSDT oem_table_id.
>

Hi

I've just rebuild a qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23.el7_1.centos.6.2.src.rpm with 
your patch applied :
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jmliger/virt7-upstream/build/109631/

Regards,
Jean-Marc