Re: [libvirt] dmidecode dependency

Hello All, I was wondering if it may be possible to call sysctl, instead of requiring dmidecode to be installed for getting the uuid of a system? According to the user that filed the bug below, dmidecode needs to be installed to get the uuid, or errors will be printed in logs to get the uuid. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196733 I was wondering if sysctl can be called to get this information for FreeBSD? I am not sure if Linux would give similar information, but would think it might. Beyond this, I am not sure if dmidecode is used for other aspects beyond uuid where it is required where sysctl doesn't give the information needed. $ sudo dmidecode |grep -i uuid UUID: 42355DE8-C55C-E487-8E16-509A78EB5EE1 $ sysctl kern.hostuuid kern.hostuuid: 42355de8-c55c-e487-8e16-509a78eb5ee1