[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] Changed the source for UUID to be dmidecode for now.

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Wed Jun 25 18:07:22 UTC 2008


Perry N. Myers wrote:
> I thought this was problematic on VMs since they all have the same UUID? 
> We should use dmidecode for UUID only if we're running on bare metal.  
> If running as the developer appliance (i.e. fake managed nodes) we 
> should just use the hostname as UUID for now.

Right. This will be an issue for us in our development environment 
running the managed nodes as multiply VMs themselves. I'll rework the 
script to check if it's in a VM and not set the UUID if that is the case.

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