[Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: Copy /etc/machine-id from host system into the appliance.

Fabian Deutsch fdeutsch at redhat.com
Tue Mar 29 11:57:21 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 01:16:34PM +0200, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
>> systemd will generate a new machine-id if /etc/machine-id is empty,
>> that's how anaconda does it, maybe it's also an option for guestfish.
>
> If we were running systemd, then I'm sure it would :-)
>
> I'm not opposed in some way to running systemd in the appliance, but
> it would have to have only benefits.  We're only running one daemon.

Whoops - I was not aware that the appliance is not running it.
I can't judge if it would have benefits ..

- fabian

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