Hi, in the API a lot of IDs get passed around are UUIDs.
The point is that as long as you are not the entity generating the UUIDs the 
fact that these are UUIDs have no real significance to you.
I suggest removing the validation of UUIDs from the receiving end. There is no 
real reason to make sure these are real UUIDs.
It's another restriction we can remove from the interface simplifying the code 
and the interface.

Just to be clear I'm not saying that we should stop using UUIDs.
For example, vdsm will keep generating task IDs as UUIDs. But the documentation 
will state that it could be *any* string value.
If for some reason we choose to change the format of task IDs. There will be no 
need to change the interface.

The same goes for VM IDs. Currently the engine uses UUIDs but there is no 
reason for VDSM to enforce this and limit the engine from ever changing it in 
the future and using other string values.
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