Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Use libuuid if available.

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

On Thursday 05 June 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > Anthony, thanks for the review.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:18:15AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>> @@ -256,8 +260,14 @@ static void do_info_name(void)
> >>>   static void do_info_uuid(void)
> >>>  {
> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_UUID
> >>> +    char uuid_str[37];
> >>> +    uuid_unparse(qemu_uuid, uuid_str);
> >>> +    term_printf("%s\n", uuid_str);
> >>> +#else
> >>
> >> Just use a printf() string here again to eliminate the need for
> >> CONFIG_UUID.
> >
> > So may be do not use libuuid at all and just write simple uuid string
> > parsing function?
>
> For parsing, sure. But uuid generation requires implementing an
> algorithm from an RFC. I think that warrants using libuuid.

Can we punt this to management tools? Having qemu create randomly different 
machines seems like it's going to cause as many problems as it solves.  We've 
already got things like MAC addresses which are fixed but need to be unique.

Paul