diff --git a/src/format.rs b/src/format.rs
index a9ebe24..53b3ae6 100644
--- a/src/format.rs
+++ b/src/format.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 use std::char;
 use std::fmt::{self, Write};
 
+use crate::to_bytes::ToBytes;
+use crate::utils;
+
 pub struct CStrFormat<'a>(pub &'a [u8]);
 
 impl<'a> fmt::Debug for CStrFormat<'a> {
@@ -16,7 +19,7 @@ impl<'a> fmt::Debug for CStrFormat<'a> {
 
 impl<'a> fmt::Display for CStrFormat<'a> {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
-        let s = crate::from_c_str(self.0);
+        let s = utils::from_c_str(self.0);
 
         fmt::Debug::fmt(&s, f)
     }
@@ -37,16 +40,16 @@ impl<T: fmt::LowerHex> fmt::Display for HexFormat<T> {
     }
 }
 
-pub struct HexFormatSlice<'a>(pub &'a [u8]);
+pub struct HexFormatSlice<'a, T>(pub &'a [T]);
 
-impl<'a> fmt::Debug for HexFormatSlice<'a> {
+impl<'a, T: Copy + fmt::LowerHex + ToBytes> fmt::Debug for HexFormatSlice<'a, T> {
     #[inline]
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
         fmt::Display::fmt(self, f)
     }
 }
 
-impl<'a> fmt::Display for HexFormatSlice<'a> {
+impl<'a, T: Copy + fmt::LowerHex + ToBytes> fmt::Display for HexFormatSlice<'a, T> {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
         if self.0.is_empty() {
             f.write_str("[]")
@@ -54,7 +57,9 @@ impl<'a> fmt::Display for HexFormatSlice<'a> {
             f.write_str("0x")?;
 
             for v in self.0.iter() {
-                write!(f, "{:02x}", v)?;
+                for b in v.to_ne_bytes() {
+                    write!(f, "{b:02x}")?;
+                }
             }
 
             Ok(())
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index ff3b575..0a09a38 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 //! - Arc Compute for their work on Mdev-GPU and GVM documenting more field names in the vGPU
 //!   configuration structure
 
-use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::cmp;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::env;
@@ -33,6 +32,7 @@ mod human_number;
 mod ioctl;
 mod log;
 mod nvidia;
+mod to_bytes;
 mod utils;
 mod uuid;
 
@@ -489,12 +489,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn ioctl(fd: RawFd, request: c_ulong, argp: *mut c_void) -
     ret
 }
 
-pub fn from_c_str(value: &[u8]) -> Cow<'_, str> {
-    let len = value.iter().position(|&c| c == 0).unwrap_or(value.len());
-
-    String::from_utf8_lossy(&value[..len])
-}
-
 fn load_overrides() -> Result<String, bool> {
     let config_path = match env::var_os("VGPU_UNLOCK_PROFILE_OVERRIDE_CONFIG_PATH") {
         Some(path) => PathBuf::from(path),
@@ -581,7 +575,7 @@ fn apply_profile_override<C: VgpuConfigLike>(
                 $value
             );
         };
-        ($target_field:ident, $preprocess:ident, $value:expr) => {
+        ($target_field:ident, $preprocess:expr, $value:expr) => {
             info!(
                 "Patching {}/{}: {} -> {}",
                 vgpu_type,
@@ -670,7 +664,7 @@ fn apply_profile_override<C: VgpuConfigLike>(
             if value_bytes.len() > config.$target_field().len() - 1 {
                 error_too_long!($target_field, $value);
             } else {
-                patch_msg!($target_field, from_c_str, $value);
+                patch_msg!($target_field, utils::from_c_str, $value);
 
                 // Zero out the field first.
                 // (`fill` was stabilized in Rust 1.50, but Debian Bullseye ships with 1.48)
diff --git a/src/to_bytes.rs b/src/to_bytes.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0041597
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/to_bytes.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+pub trait ToBytes {
+    type Bytes: Copy + AsRef<[u8]> + AsMut<[u8]> + IntoIterator<Item = u8> + 'static;
+
+    fn to_ne_bytes(self) -> Self::Bytes;
+}
+
+macro_rules! impl_to_bytes {
+    ($ty:tt, $len:expr) => {
+        impl ToBytes for $ty {
+            type Bytes = [u8; $len];
+
+            fn to_ne_bytes(self) -> Self::Bytes {
+                $ty::to_ne_bytes(self)
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+impl ToBytes for i8 {
+    type Bytes = [u8; 1];
+
+    fn to_ne_bytes(self) -> Self::Bytes {
+        [self as u8]
+    }
+}
+
+impl_to_bytes!(i16, 2);
+impl_to_bytes!(i32, 4);
+impl_to_bytes!(i64, 8);
+#[cfg(target_pointer_width = "32")]
+impl_to_bytes!(isize, 4);
+#[cfg(target_pointer_width = "64")]
+impl_to_bytes!(isize, 8);
+
+impl ToBytes for u8 {
+    type Bytes = [u8; 1];
+
+    fn to_ne_bytes(self) -> Self::Bytes {
+        [self]
+    }
+}
+
+impl_to_bytes!(u16, 2);
+impl_to_bytes!(u32, 4);
+impl_to_bytes!(u64, 8);
+#[cfg(target_pointer_width = "32")]
+impl_to_bytes!(usize, 4);
+#[cfg(target_pointer_width = "64")]
+impl_to_bytes!(usize, 8);
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index 00d5dd8..1395e4a 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::fmt;
 
 #[cfg(feature = "proxmox")]
@@ -21,6 +22,12 @@ impl fmt::LowerHex for AlignedU64 {
     }
 }
 
+pub fn from_c_str(value: &[u8]) -> Cow<'_, str> {
+    let len = value.iter().position(|&c| c == 0).unwrap_or(value.len());
+
+    String::from_utf8_lossy(&value[..len])
+}
+
 /// Extracts the VMID from the last segment of a mdev uuid
 ///
 /// For example, for this uuid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000100