[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? If not, can a patch like this one be applied? Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@canonical.com --- vl.c | 11 +++

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 26.03.2012 17:13, schrieb Serge E. Hallyn: Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? Yes, documented somewhere in the archives, we wanted to have reproducible defaults

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andreas Färber (afaer...@suse.de): Am 26.03.2012 17:13, schrieb Serge E. Hallyn: Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? Yes, documented somewhere in the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:13:40 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn se...@hallyn.com wrote: Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? If not, can a patch like this one be applied?

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Brian Jackson (i...@theiggy.com): On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:13:40 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn se...@hallyn.com wrote: Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? If

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 03/26/2012 10:13 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? If not, can a patch like this one be applied? Signed-off-by: Serge

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] If user doesn't specify a uuid, generate a random one

2012-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Anthony Liguori (anth...@codemonkey.ws): On 03/26/2012 10:13 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Currently, if the user doesn't pass a uuid, the system uuid is set to all zeros. This patch generates a random one instead. Is there a reason to prefer all zeros? If not, can a patch like this