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[Louis Bouchard <bouchard.louis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I have revived this bug and assigned myself to it.

It turns out that -smbios type=1,manufacturer=Scaleway is required by us
to trigger cloud-init's DataSourceScaleway on our infrastructure.

And, moreover, the functionality works as designed on Bionic :

# dmidecode | head
# dmidecode 3.1
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Table at 0xBC030000.

Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
        Manufacturer: Scaleway
        Product Name: KVM Virtual Machine
        Version: 1.0
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic
# arch
aarch64

So I am going to work on trying to identify what was added to version
1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.4 to make it work as expected.

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Wishlist => Medium

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Louis Bouchard (louis)

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Louis Bouchard (louis)

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Title:
  smbios parameter settings not visible in guest

Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in qemu source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in qemu source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  qemu-system-aarch64 supports -smbios parameters to export values into the DMI tables.
  These values are viewable via /sys/class/dmi/id/* or via dmidecode (V3 tables).

  Passing in custom values for things like -smbios
  type=1,manufacturer="Foobar" should result in that value being
  viewable in-guest via dmidecode or /sys/class/dmi/id/*

  Testing with a Xenial qemu-system-arm and Xenial cloud-image shows
  that these smbios parameters aren't being modified.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: qemu-system-arm 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.7
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic aarch64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
  Architecture: arm64
  Date: Mon Feb  6 16:09:03 2017
  KvmCmdLine:
   COMMAND         STAT  EUID  RUID   PID  PPID %CPU COMMAND
   kvm_arch_timer  S<       0     0    63     2  0.0 [kvm_arch_timer]
   kvm-irqfd-clean S<       0     0    64     2  0.0 [kvm-irqfd-clean]
  Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: console=ttyS0,115200n8 ro
  SourcePackage: qemu
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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