From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42495) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1yo1-0004R7-01 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:17:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1ynx-0001bl-Pd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:17:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z1ynx-0001ag-Jd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:17:37 -0400 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1998D29321F for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5575B20B.9000502@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:17:31 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1430133591-6197-1-git-send-email-ghammer@redhat.com> <1430133591-6197-5-git-send-email-ghammer@redhat.com> <556F2D51.2000203@redhat.com> <55759BB8.3010604@redhat.com> <55759C1B.7000905@redhat.com> <55759E0A.3090102@redhat.com> <55759EC2.5090802@redhat.com> <20150608135854.GC19157@redhat.com> <20150608165951-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150608165951-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V15 4/5] i386: add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Gal Hammer , imammedo@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/06/2015 17:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Are there applications that would actually use this? For microsoft this > seems to be mostly driven by ActiveDirectory needs. > It seems quite possible that applications solve the problem > differently on Linux. I'm not aware of a different solution to the problem on Linux. Paolo