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phatfish

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From: England

Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 5

libvirt SMBIOS error

Hi all,

I have an error in libvirt that has very few hits on Google

root@localhost / # virsh sysinfo
error: failed to get sysinfo
error: unsupported configuration: Host SMBIOS information is not available

I have got a VM configured through libvirt with qemu/kvm, so its not a show stopper, but it does cause problems with tools that use the command above to pull information about the host. The libvirtd config is pretty much just the changes from the wiki.

My system is up to date.

local/libsmbios 2.2.28-1
local/linux 3.8.7-1 (base)
local/libvirt 1.0.4-1

I thought maybe it is permissions on a device in /dev, but it seems one doesn't exist for smbios.

Thanks in advance.

phatfish

Member

From: England

Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 5

Re: libvirt SMBIOS error

To answer my own question, in case anyone is stuck. Its simple, optional dependency dmidecode is required. A little confusing as the error doesn't point you in that direction immediately.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … dmidecode/