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

[Jeff Schroeder]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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

Out of curiosity, what kind of hardware doesn't have a UUID in the dmi?
Can you run this on a few of them:
dmidecode | awk -F: '/Product Name/{print $2}' | sed -e 's/^ //' -e 'q'

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