[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] Changed the source for UUID to be dmidecode for now.

[Perry N. Myers]

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Perry N. Myers wrote:
>> Here's the list of dependent RPMs that hal is bringing in on the current 
>> managed node image:
>>
>>     1:libsmbios
>>     2:smbios-utils
>>     3:vbetool
>>     4:usermode
>>     5:radeontool
>>     6:kbd
>>     7:hdparm
>>     8:libusb
>>     9:hal-libs
>>    10:dmidecode
>>    11:cryptsetup-luks
>>    12:acl
>>    13:ConsoleKit
>>    14:hwdata
>>    15:pciutils
>>    16:pm-utils
>>    17:hal
>>    18:hal-info
> 
> Sure, but in my opinion, this whole thing is not worth it at the moment, as I've
> stated before.  Not only do we have the UUID problem on the guests, we aren't
> even guaranteed to have it on real hardware.  Until we have some fallback plan
> for this, adding HAL (and going through the pain of trying to minimize it), and
> adding this code, is not really worth it.

Unless we need hal for other things...  it's not a requirement for libvirt 
right now, but it might be in the future.

Perry