Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] util: Add UUID API

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:44 PM Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

On 03/08/2016 04:36, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 08/02 15:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>>> A number of different places across the code base use CONFIG_UUID. Some
>>> of them are soft dependency, some are not built if libuuid is not
>>> available, some come with dummy fallback, some throws runtime error.

For info, there has been glib UUID proposal for a while:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639078

Although quite ready, the discussion stopped because some dev believe g_uuid_string_random() is all you need. Anyway, if ever accepted, it would take another 5y or so to be acceptable for qemu :)
 

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Marc-André Lureau