Re: [PATCH 0/1] vmx: Fix <genid/> mapping

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I don't know why we decided to use a GUID for this.  The feature
> itself (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=260709) defines it as
> an 128 bit / 8 byte number.  The only connection to GUIDs is the size.

*cough* .. 16 bytes :-)

Rich.

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