Passthrough the host BIOS DMI info to a QEMU VM Step-by-step guide In the host (real hardware), obtain the data to pass through: function DMI { # Get DMI value and XML-escape it sudo sed \ 's/&/\&/g; s/</\</g; s/>/\>/g; s/"/\"/g; s/'"'"'/\'/g' \ "/sys/class/dmi/id/$1"