Re: KVM and VMport, or r76 UUID functionality

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:06:30AM -0700, Bryan McLellan wrote:
> I'm trying to associate KVM hosts and guests programmatically in a
> production environment. With VMWare-Server I had passed a variable
> (hostname of host) through the backdoor using the vmware-cmd and
> vmware-server binaries. Currently I'm on r62 (Ubuntu package). Is/was
> the VMport code before r76 functional? Is anyone able to specify what
> it did emulate such that I could use it for a similar purpose?
> 
> Or do I need to look for support in libvirt for the changes in r76
> that allow passing the UUID of the guest into the SMBIOS information
> via the command line, and start working with those?

Does the latest released kvm finally support the --uuid arg ? If so we'll
happily make use of it in libvirt - its very little work to add it. We've
just been waiting for it to make it into official released versions, so
we don't rely on something that may still have been changing.

Daniel
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