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

On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 10:19:11AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > 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? This is now pushed. With regards, Daniel