On 07/26/2011 03:22 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 03:06 -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote:
RHEV supports SMBIOS, but the propsed solution to "injecting" a UUID from the RHEV guys is to use an attached floppy disk (since RHN also uses SMBIOS, and since SMBIOS is limited to 64-byte strings in the normal case, floppy was seen as larger, easier, and less likely to collide with RHN).
Not quite right - floppy or file injection VDSM hooks is what the RHEV team is proposing for user data.
The deltacloud instance ID (i.e. the VM UUID) is available in SMBIOS by default in RHEV guests.
Ok... too much info spread across this thread. I tried to capture some of it here, please let me know if any of this is wildly inaccurate and I will correct: