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

[Chris Lalancette]

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> OK.  I think this is almost right, but still needs to be changed a little, since
> we should always send over a UUID.  So something like this:
> 
> VENDOR=`dmidecode | awk ' /Vendor/{ print $2; } '`
> UUID=`dmidecode | awk ' /UUID/{ print $2; } '`
> if [ -z "$UUID" -o "$VENDOR" = "QEMU" ]; then
> 	UUID=get_my_hostname
> fi
> 
> ovirt-identify-node -s $SRV_HOST -p $SRV_PORT -u $UUID
> 
> That way you always have some UUID, either the value from the DMI tables in the
> case of bare-metal, or the hostname in the case of QEMU/KVM guest or missing
> UUID in bare-metal.

And just in case anyone thinks that I'm making stuff up about the UUID's missing
on bare-metal, of the 4 pieces of hardware that I have locally, only 1 of them
has a valid UUID.  The other 3 either have:

UUID: Not Settable

or

UUID: Not Present

Chris Lalancette