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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 March 2016 16:50:01 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Just habit :)
> 
> (It works the same with bs=16 count=1 of course -- did the change
> locally.)

OK, ACK with that change.

Thanks,

Rich.

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