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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 4/8] Use libuuid if available.
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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:05:00PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > If libuuid is available use it for UUID generation in case a user asks for
> > it.
> 
> I don't think this feature is worth the extra dependency.  IMHO Generation of 
> UUIDs should be left to the management utility. Anyone invoking qemu manually 
> can trivially generate a UUID using commonly available tools (e.g. uuidgen).
> 
> If we really must have this feature then you need to document it.
> 
I don't think it's must. Lets ignore it for now.

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			Gleb.