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

[Darryl L. Pierce]

David Lutterkort wrote:
> Why not use 'dmidecode -s system-manufacturer' and 'dmidecode -s
> system-uuid' ? If that's not doable for some reason, you should run
> 'dmidecode -t 1' to restrict the output to system info.
> 
> Looking for 'Vendor' in the dmidecode output might give you the Bios
> Vendor, not the system vendor - at least, that's what happens on one of
> my systems.

The code now uses hal-get-property to grab just the UUID itself.

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