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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:04:50 +0200
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 0/5] Add UUID support.
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Gleb Natapov wrote:
> There was no additional comments last time I sent this patch series and
> it was not yet committed to the SVN. Resend it for review/inclusion.
> 
>  This is updated version of the patch series. The patch #5 checks libuuid
> availability and uses it for UUID generation if present, but it is
> optional so if people think that libvirt is a better place for UUID generation
> just don't apply the last patch.

I don't like this vmport "backdoor" and I would like to disable it by
default, so I consider it is not the solution to pass the UUID
information to the BIOS.

BTW, what is the use of this UUID ?

Fabrice.