Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3]: Add -uuid option to Qemu

[Gleb Natapov]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:43:39PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Chris Lalancette wrote:
> > As suggested by Anthony, this patch and the next one were split apart.  This
> > patch just adds the basic plumbing to qemu to be able to set the uuid on the
> > command-line, and retrieve the information via "info uuid".
> 
> What is the point of CONFIG_UUID and the libuuid test in that patch?
> I can't see any dependency on it in the source code.  IMHO the -uuid
> switch should be present unconditionally.
Here is the patch series where there is no CONFIG_UUID test (was posted
here two month ago): 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00443.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00444.html

And this one checks for libuuid and uses it for random uuid generation if
available (UUID should be RFC compliant):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-06/msg00446.html

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                        Gleb.