On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:08:15AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/25/2010 08:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > + > > +# UUID of the host: > > +# Provide the UUID of the host here in case the command > > +# 'dmidecode -s system-uuid' does not provide a valid uuid. In case > > +# 'dmidecode' does not provide a valid UUID and none is provided here, a > > +# temporary UUID will be generated. > > +# Keep the format of the example UUID below. UUID must not have all digits > > +# be the same. > > + > > +#host_uuid = "8510b1a1-1afa-4da6-8111-785fae202c1e" > > What's the likelihood that people just uncomment this line, and this > becomes a very common "uuid" that is no longer unique? > http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/woolworth.asp > > The sample is worthwhile, to show the locations where - must appear, but > is it any better to write the sample as a known-invalid string, with all > digits the same? Yeah, we should replace it with # NB: to generate a unique value for your machine # run 'uuidgen' and copy the output here #host_uuid = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list