[virt-tools-list] Change UUID

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:25:54PM -0400, Toan Pham wrote:
> >
> > No I don't expect it will be made configurable. That UUID field is
> > basically the libvirt vm's unique identifier, I can't really think of a
> > compelling reason to change it at all let alone expose it in the UI. You
> > can change it using virsh but it's a bit difficult, you'll need to
> > undefine the VM, change the UUID in the XML, then redefine it, to avoid
> > a libvirt collision check
> 
> Thanks, in that case, I guess I'll stick with using KVM from linux command
> line!

Theres no need to abandon virt-manager just for that one thing - since you
said this is just for a pre-existing windows disk image you can fix it up
as a one time thing

  virsh dumpxml foo > foo.xml
  emacs foo.xml ....change uuid...
  virsh undefine foo
  virsh define foo.xml


Regards,
Daniel
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