</bios>
<system>
<entry name='manufacturer'>Fedora</entry>
- <entry name='vendor'>Virt-Manager</entry>
+ <entry name='product'>Virt-Manager</entry>
+ <entry name='version'>0.9.4</entry>
</system>
</sysinfo>
...</pre>
<dl>
<dt><code>bios</code></dt>
<dd>
- This is block 0 of SMBIOS, with entry names drawn from
- "vendor", "version", "date", and "release".
+ This is block 0 of SMBIOS, with entry names drawn from:
+ <dl>
+ <dt><code>vendor</code></dt>
+ <dd>BIOS Vendor's Name</dd>
+ <dt><code>version</code></dt>
+ <dd>BIOS Version</dd>
+ <dt><code>date</code></dt>
+ <dd>BIOS release date. If supplied, is in either mm/dd/yy or
+ mm/dd/yyyy format. If the year portion of the string is
+ two digits, the year is assumed to be 19yy.</dd>
+ <dt><code>release</code></dt>
+ <dd>System BIOS Major and Minor release number values
+ concatenated together as one string separated by
+ a period, for example, 10.22.</dd>
+ </dl>
</dd>
<dt><code>system</code></dt>
<dd>
- This is block 1 of SMBIOS, with entry names drawn from
- "manufacturer", "product", "version", "serial", "uuid",
- "sku", and "family". If a "uuid" entry is provided
- alongside a
- top-level <a href="#elementsMetadata"><code>uuid</code>
- element</a>, the two values must match.
+ This is block 1 of SMBIOS, with entry names drawn from:
+ <dl>
+ <dt><code>manufacturer</code></dt>
+ <dd>Manufacturer of BIOS</dd>
+ <dt><code>product</code></dt>
+ <dd>Product Name</dd>
+ <dt><code>version</code></dt>
+ <dd>Version of the product</dd>
+ <dt><code>serial</code></dt>
+ <dd>Serial number</dd>
+ <dt><code>uuid</code></dt>
+ <dd>Universal Unique ID number. If this entry is provided
+ alongside a top-level
+ <a href="#elementsMetadata"><code>uuid</code></a> element,
+ then the two values must match.</dd>
+ <dt><code>sku</code></dt>
+ <dd>SKU number to identify a particular configuration.</dd>
+ <dt><code>family</code></dt>
+ <dd>Identify the family a particular computer belongs to.</dd>
+ </dl>
+ NB: Incorrectly supplied entries in either the <code>bios</code>
+ or <code>system</code> blocks will be ignored without error.
+ Other than <code>uuid</code> validation and <code>date</code>
+ format checking, all values are passed as strings to the
+ hypervisor driver.
</dd>
</dl>
</dd>