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To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
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Christoph Egger schrieb:
> On Thursday 23 July 2009 22:27:54 Stefan Weil wrote:
>   
>> The Universally Unique Identifier library will be used
>> for the new vdi block driver and maybe other parts of QEMU.
>>     
>
> This is very Linux specific.
> On NetBSD, the header is in <sys/uuid.h> and part of libc.
> The API implements DCE 1.1 RPC specification which is
> very different from Linux uuid.
>
> Christoph
>
>   


The Linux implementation claims to conform to OSF DCE 1.1,
see manpages of libuuid.

Do you think that we need a QEMU wrapper to handle different
implementations?

Stefan