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qemu to linux mapping of smbios / dmi information

Mappings for DMI/SMBIOS to Linux and dmidecode

Information can be put into dmi tables via some qemu-system hosts (x86_64 and aarch64). That information is exposed in Linux under /sys/class/dmi/id and can be read with dmidecode. The names are very annoyingly inconsistent. The point of this doc is to map them.

See qemu-system-x86_64 --help for the fields that qemu will accept. qemu smbios flags vary with qemu version.

Mappings

Example qemu cmdline:

qemu-system-x86_64 -smbios type=,field=value[,...]