From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNUye-00018V-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:49:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNUyc-00016i-OY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:49:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46380 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNUyc-00016R-Ch for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:49:34 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:34027) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNUyc-0004aK-0u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:49:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:49:32 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3]: Add UUID command-line option Message-ID: <20080728154931.GB13000@shareable.org> References: <488DC8B2.1070009@redhat.com> <20080728141515.GJ3196@minantech.com> <488DD98D.5010907@codemonkey.ws> <488DDA93.4070702@redhat.com> <488DDF8B.8020103@codemonkey.ws> <488DE142.1060100@redhat.com> <488DE1E0.1070005@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488DE1E0.1070005@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Gleb Natapov , Chris Lalancette Anthony Liguori wrote: > That makes me sad that they merged that. What a terribly complicated > way to do something that's relatively simple. I guess it's for backwards compatibility with ancient versions of VMware, but it does seem out of place now. -- Jamie