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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> +# Create a machine-id with a random UUID
> +dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=16 status=none | od -x -A n | sed -e 's, ,,g' > /etc/machine-id

Out of interest, why read single bytes, and not the whole 16 bytes in
one go?

Rich.


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