Re: [Xen-devel] SMBIOS UUID

2016-12-17 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 17/12/16 10:54, Dejan Markic wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > firstly, thank you for your answer. We have some software being moved > from physical machines to virtual machines and we need to maintain > those UUID's. Excellent use case. Given this, I switch my view to definitely being a good idea

Re: [Xen-devel] SMBIOS UUID

2016-12-17 Thread Dejan Markic
Hello Andrew, firstly, thank you for your answer. We have some software being moved from physical machines to virtual machines and we need to maintain those UUID's. I've been able to change the hvmloader to staticly change the UUID. It seems that xenstore uses fixed database scheme, so I

Re: [Xen-devel] SMBIOS UUID

2016-12-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 12/12/16 19:05, Dejan Markic wrote: > Hello all, > > sorry, as this might be a stupid question for some of you, but I > wonder why here: > > https://github.com/mirage/xen/blob/master/tools/firmware/hvmloader/smbios.c#L438 > > > You allow almost everything to be overwritten in SMBIOS type 1

[Xen-devel] SMBIOS UUID

2016-12-12 Thread Dejan Markic
Hello all, sorry, as this might be a stupid question for some of you, but I wonder why here: https://github.com/mirage/xen/blob/master/tools/firmware/hvmloader/smbios.c#L438 You allow almost everything to be overwritten in SMBIOS type 1 table except the UUID. Would there be any problems if