[libvirt] [libvirt PATCH] Port-profile ID support using IFLA_VF_PORT_PROFILE netlink msg

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 10:13:36PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Scott Feldman <scofeldm at cisco.com> wrote on 05/08/2010 07:28:11 PM:
> 
> >     VSI Manager ID      1 octet
> >     VSI Type ID         3 octets
> >     VSI Type ID Version 1 octet
> >     VSI Instance ID    16 octets              <-- taken care of via 
> dimdecode

The code can't rely on using dmidecode I'm afraid. Far too many
manufacturers / machines have SMBIOS UUID field filled with complete
garbage. eg my main server shows

  # dmidecode |grep -i uuid
	UUID: Not Settable

So if we need a host UUID, I think we need to be able to either set it in
the XML, or have it set in a per host config for the QEMU driver in libvirt.

Daniel
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