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20.3. SMBIOS System Information

Some hypervisors allow control over what system information is presented to the guest virtual machine (for example, SMBIOS fields can be populated by a hypervisor and inspected using the midecode command in the guest virtual machine). The optional sysinfo element covers all such categories of information. 
  ...
  <os>
    <smbios mode='sysinfo'/>
    ...
  </os>
  <sysinfo type='smbios'>
    <bios>
      <entry name='vendor'>LENOVO</entry>
    </bios>
    <system>
      <entry name='manufacturer'>Fedora</entry>
      <entry name='vendor'>Virt-Manager</entry>
    </system>
  </sysinfo>
  ...
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Figure 20.5. SMBIOS system information

The <sysinfo> element has a mandatory attribute type that determines the layout of sub-elements, and may be defined as follows:
  • smbios - Sub-elements call out specific SMBIOS values, which will affect the guest virtual machine if used in conjunction with the smbios sub-element of the <os> element. Each sub-element of sysinfo names a SMBIOS block, and within those elements can be a list of entry elements that describe a field within the block. The following blocks and entries are recognized:
    • bios - This is block 0 of SMBIOS, with entry names drawn from vendor, version, date, and release.
    • <system> - This is block 1 of SMBIOS, with entry names drawn from manufacturer, product, version, serial, uuid, sku, and family. If a uuid entry is provided alongside a top-level uuid element, the two values must match.
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