Command dmidecode Does Not Provide DMI Info on Paravirtual Xen Guest
Issue
- Querying the system for DMI (SMBIOS) information with the
dmidecode
command on a paravirtual xen guest produces the following error message:
No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found
Environment
- Xen paravirtual guest
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 & 6
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