On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:32 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The UUID for the default network is not included in the example default > config. So every time you restart the libvirt_qemud we get a randomly > generated UUID. This isn't really in keeping with the idea of having a > permanent UID :-) So I think we need to do two things: > > - In the 'make install' routine - if-and-only-if the > $prefix/etc/libvirt/networks/default.xml > > file was newly installed, then stuff a random UUID into it, eg > > UUID=`uuidgen` > sed -e "s,</name>,</name>\n <uuid>$UUID</uuid>," \ > $prefix/etc/libvirt/networks/default.xml > > If the system doesn't have uuidgen, we can just ignore this step > > - In the RPM %post section we need to stuff in a UUID at install time > if-and-only-if this is a new install - ie leave it alone during upgrades > > UUID=`uuidgen` > sed -e "s,</name>,</name>\n <uuid>$UUID</uuid>," \ > %(sysconfdir)/libvirt/networks/default.xml I'd have no problem with something like this. A little tricky to implement, but it should be fine. Cheers, Mark.