Code review comment for lp:~kiril-vladimiroff/cloud-init/cloudsigma-smbios-data-check

a) When a virtual machine from our marketplace is cloned all the
metadata for it gets cloned, too (arch, os, distribution, version and
most all: **install notes**). And install notes could be huge. When
this data is a lot, a lot of time is spent on receiving it. So, since
we have the SMBIOS check now, we're sure such serial read/writes will
be executed only in our cloud. In other words: especially the read
timeout is completely reasonable.

b) We're going to deploy the new version of our cloud soon and it's
useless to put this as configuration option. Will use custom builds
until then.

> Basically, even if dmi-decode is available, we don't want to run it on arm.

Could you please explain why? I don't see a reason to filter by arch,
since the SMBIOS check is pretty straightforward.
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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Scott Moser <email address hidden> wrote:
> one other thing. due to the unavailability (and general failure) on arm, you'll need to modify your tests similar to I did in revision 960. Basically, even if dmi-decode is available, we don't want to run it on arm.
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