From: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>

vmware-vmx-version is a number returned from CMD_GETVERSION which specifies
to guest VMware Tools the the host VMX version. If the host reports a number
that is different than what the guest VMware Tools expects, it may force
guest to upgrade VMware Tools. (See comment above VERSION_MAGIC and
VmCheck_IsVirtualWorld() function in open-vm-tools open-source code).

For better readability and allow maintaining compatability for guests
which may expect different vmware-vmx-version, make vmware-vmx-version a
VMPort object property. This would allow user to control it's value via
"-global vmport.vmware-vmx-version=X".

Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200312165431.82118-6-liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 hw/i386/vmport.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/i386/vmport.c b/hw/i386/vmport.c
index 730b61fcaa..dfebaf5b73 100644
--- a/hw/i386/vmport.c
+++ b/hw/i386/vmport.c
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ typedef struct VMPortState {
     VMPortReadFunc *func[VMPORT_ENTRIES];
     void *opaque[VMPORT_ENTRIES];
 
+    uint32_t vmware_vmx_version;
+
     uint32_t compat_flags;
 } VMPortState;
 
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ static uint32_t vmport_cmd_get_version(void *opaque, uint32_t addr)
     X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(current_cpu);
 
     cpu->env.regs[R_EBX] = VMPORT_MAGIC;
-    return 6;
+    return port_state->vmware_vmx_version;
 }
 
 static uint32_t vmport_cmd_ram_size(void *opaque, uint32_t addr)
@@ -179,6 +181,11 @@ static Property vmport_properties[] = {
                     VMPORT_COMPAT_READ_SET_EAX_BIT, true),
     DEFINE_PROP_BIT("x-signal-unsupported-cmd", VMPortState, compat_flags,
                     VMPORT_COMPAT_SIGNAL_UNSUPPORTED_CMD_BIT, true),
+
+    /* Default value taken from open-vm-tools code VERSION_MAGIC definition */
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT32("vmware-vmx-version", VMPortState,
+                       vmware_vmx_version, 6),
+
     DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
 };
 
-- 
2.26.2