From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jamin W. Collins" Subject: Re: Windows Vista/7 repeatedly prompt to Set Network Location Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:20:14 -0700 Message-ID: <4B604B9E.7050508@asgardsrealm.net> References: <4B5FBF85.9060907@asgardsrealm.net> <4B604818.7070603@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Lalancette Return-path: Received: from asgardsrealm.net ([173.10.17.185]:59975 "EHLO forseti.asgardsrealm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755256Ab0A0OUR (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:20:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B604818.7070603@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chris Lalancette wrote: > On 01/26/2010 11:22 PM, Jamin W. Collins wrote: >> >> While the uuid isn't the same from one execution to the next, to my >> knowledge it's not something the VM ever sees and is only an identifier >> within KVM. Has anyone else seen anything like this? > > Actually, that's not true (if I remember correctly). The uuid is exposed to the guest > via the SMBIOS tables, so that might be causing the problem. Try setting the > UUID in the libvirt XML, and that may solve it. Even with the UUID defined in the XML I'm still repeatedly getting the prompt to define the network location. If I simply reboot the virtual machine all is well. However, if I actually shut the virtual machine down, on the next startup it will ask for the network location type.