Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce hardware UUID (hwuuid) element

On 18/07/2025 09:44, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Following on from the discussions at [1] and more recently [2], this series > introduces a new hardware UUID (hwuuid) element that allows an external > UUID to be provided to the guest, as opposed to the libvirt domain UUID. > > The use case for this feature is to allow a domain to cloned and then > restarted without changing its guest-visible UUID e.g. via dmidecode. > > Patch 1 introduces the new hardware UUID (hwuuid) element along with an > implementation for the QEMU driver, whilst patch 2 adds additional tests > to ensure the hwuuid functionality is working as expected. > > Note that from reading the source it doesn't appear as if all virtualisation > platforms will support this feature: I've included the relevant changes for > the QEMU driver since that is what we use here at Nutanix. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland(a)nutanix.com&gt; Ping? Any further comments? I could post a v3 with the documentation updated to reference 11.7.0 if that helps?