> Frankly, I did not miss this at first. I just hoped that what I was trying to do was not “overriding” the predefined structure. > Because Xen (or rather hvml

> Frankly, I did not miss this at first. I just hoped that what I was trying to do was not “overriding” the predefined structure. > Because Xen (or rather hvmloader) does not define it. > So, before defining it myself, I tried to find out if there was any other poor soul who tried to do the same thing before me. And to my disappointment, there was. Right in the xen-devel patch archive. > Why it was my disappointment, you may ask? Because after reading the response to the patch, I felt the frustration of the author. Specifically, the patch is annotated "SMBIOS tables like 7,8,9,26,27,28 are ne[c]essary to prevent sandbox detection by malware using WMI-queries." And the rejection is in two points: (1) Why is that valuable? (2) What if there were other tables that also helped with that goal? Your patch doesn't include them.