[sles-beta] SLES12 RC1 KVM client Productname

[Antoine Ginies]

urs.frey at post.ch:
> Hi

Hello,

> 
> When set up a SLES12 RC1 as KVM client, the productname looks quite strange now
> 
> h05cnh:~ # facter | grep product
> productname => Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> h05cnh:~ # uname -a
> Linux h05cnh 3.12.25-2-default #1 SMP Mon Jul 28 12:18:48 UTC 2014 (1b84426) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> h05cnh:~ # facter | grep product
> productname => Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> h05cnh:~ # dmidecode | grep Product
>         Product Name: Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> h05cnh:~ # facter | grep virtual
> is_virtual => true
> virtual => kvm
> h05cnh:~ #

By default machine type for Qemu is pc-i440fx:
under SLES12 host:
linux-x61s:~ # qemu-system-x86_64 -M ? | grep default
pc-i440fx-2.0        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)

and under SLE11SP3 host:
pc-i440fx-1.4        Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)

 
> Until Beta9 the output was different and more readable, as it was under SLES11-SP3
> h039ua:~ # uname -a
> Linux h039ua 3.12.22-2-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 13 13:46:18 UTC 2014 (ee1c2a2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> h039ua:~ # facter | grep product
> productname => Bochs
> h039ua:~ # dmidecode | grep Product
>         Product Name: Bochs
> h039ua:~ # facter | grep virtual
> is_virtual => true
> virtual => kvm
> h039ua:~ #
> 
> Could this new unusual product name coming with SLES12-RC1 be considered as I bug?

Machine type can be changed. So it's not a bug if the machine type was
specified to launch the VM guest.


regards.
 
> I was searching also in SUSEConnect to see how KVM gets recognized and will be treated to be registered as virtual client
> 
> I'll appreciate to get more information about this new product naming of a KVM client
> 
> And also of course to get a hint where about to search in the code of suse connect to get an idea about hovKVM gets treated please
> Thank you very much
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Urs Frey
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Antoine Ginies <aginies at suse.com>
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