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

[Darryl L. Pierce]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>   $ lshal | grep system.hardware.uuid
>   system.hardware.uuid = 'E9CD5280-4897-11CB-9596-A088B277D677'  (string)
> 
> This has added benefit of not needing root privileges

Just thinking about this: the only user on the managed node is root and 
would also be the only person at this point to running 
/etc/init.d/ovirt-post. So, given that and the relative increase size in 
using hal, wouldn't it be better to use dmidecode instead?

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