Re: Q: How to find own domid or uuid from domU?

["Andrew D. Ball" <aball@us.ibm.com>]

I think it would be really, really good if the UUID would be exposed via 
sysfs in domU's.

Peace.
Andrew

Keir Fraser wrote:

 >
 > On 18 May 2006, at 14:18, Markus Armbruster wrote:
 >
 >>> If it's only management tools looking to obtain info about other
 >>> running domains, there's already a dom0_op for querying uuid info.
 >>>
 >>> Is there any reason a domain needs to know its *own* uuid?
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> It's management tools looking to obtain info about their own domain.
 >>
 >> Consider a network-enabled stat-gathering, managing, or monitoring
 >> tool running on domU.  It wants to uniquely identify itself to the
 >> peer.  IP or MAC can work in some environments, but in others they're
 >> ephemeral.  UUID would be much better.  It's the only thing that known
 >> never to change, isn't it?
 >
 >
 >
 > Ok makes sense.
 >
 > Adding a new op to the version hypercall will be fine.
 >
 >  -- Keir
 >
 >
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