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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:58:05PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> -    ovirt-identify-node -s $SRV_HOST -p $SRV_PORT
> +    UUID=`/usr/sbin/dmidecode | grep -i uuid | awk '{ print $2; }'`

Don't use dmidecode - this is x86 specific and won't work in ia64/ppc I
believe. Instead use HAL to get it

eg

  $ lshal | grep system.hardware.uuid
  system.hardware.uuid = 'E9CD5280-4897-11CB-9596-A088B277D677'  (string)

This has added benefit of not needing root privileges

Regards,
Daniel.
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