https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/3b076993-2f8b-445b-8c3f-5602a248d90a Biosbits is a software written by Josh Triplett that executes the bios components such as acpi/smbios tables directly from grub without an operating system involved in between. In QEMU, we never had the ability to directly execute and test ACPI/SMBIOS tables from within a running guest. This work adds the ability to test QEMU generated acpi tables using biosbits. We can add new tests incrementally. For QEMU, we maintain a fork of bios bits in gitlab containing numerous fixes along with all the dependent submodules. Within the QEMU repo, we add new python based avocado tests for bits. Care has been taken so that an ACPI contributor can add new tests for bits without having to know too much about biosbits itself or even touching the biosbits repository. This test framework is available from QEMU v7.2. The talk will give some details on the bios bits avocado tests, how to execute them, how to add new tests etc. It will discuss some of the challenges and limitations of this framework. Speaker: Anirban Sinha, Track: Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure devroom, Room: UB2.147, When: Saturday 3 February 2024, 13:30–14:00 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Slides, Demo, Demo (high res), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Exercising QEMU generated ACPI/SMBIOS tables using Biosbits from within a guest VM.” by Anirban Sinha, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/ub2147/fosdem-2024-2262-exercising-qemu-generated-acpi-smbios-tables-using-biosbits-from-within-a-guest-vm-.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:11:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/3b076993-2f8b-445b-8c3f-5602a248d90a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.