Looking at the qemu code the problem IMHO is: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/6b54a31bf7b403672a798b6443b1930ae6c74dea/docs/specs/vmgenid.txt#L189 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/6b54a31bf7b403672a798b6443b1930ae6c74dea/hw/acpi/vmgenid.c#L37 This byte swapping makes no sense to me. How do we know that the guest is little endian? What will this code do for BE guests? I think qemu would be better off treating the "GUID" as a list of bytes and writing that exactly into the guest memory. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
