On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:06:30AM -0700, Bryan McLellan wrote: >> I'm trying to associate KVM hosts and guests programmatically in a >> production environment. With VMWare-Server I had passed a variable >> (hostname of host) through the backdoor using the vmware-cmd and >> vmware-server binaries. Currently I'm on r62 (Ubuntu package). Is/was >> the VMport code before r76 functional? Is anyone able to specify what >> it did emulate such that I could use it for a similar purpose? >> >> Or do I need to look for support in libvirt for the changes in r76 >> that allow passing the UUID of the guest into the SMBIOS information >> via the command line, and start working with those? > > Does the latest released kvm finally support the --uuid arg ? If so we'll > happily make use of it in libvirt - its very little work to add it. We've > just been waiting for it to make it into official released versions, so > we don't rely on something that may still have been changing.
'-uuid' is in kvm-77. You can verify the uuid with 'info uuid' on in the qemu monitor. The BIOS modifications did not make it in KVM (1a3329) until 78RC1. I suspect we won't see accurate data in the UUID field until then. I haven't tested 78RC1, but the SMBIOS information returned by dmidecode in 77 does not show the correct UUID. Bryan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
