[CentOS] How to generate UUID for Xen?

Tue Dec 18 15:08:22 UTC 2007
Tim Verhoeven <tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com>

On Dec 18, 2007 3:56 PM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote:
> The new virtual machine manager in Centos 5.1 displays some weird behavior
> here and I assume it's because the UUID of one running VM is the same as
> of a VM that is shut down. I used the same config file template for
> creating all my test VMs, so several have the same UUID. Didn't produce
> any problems with xm. But the new VM manager in Gnome shows active and
> inactive VMs and identifies them by UUID, which results in it trying to
> mix the status etc. of the active and of the inactive VM.
> How can I generate a new UUID? I assume there's some checksum in it, so
> that I can't just make one up?

In my experience, at least with Xen, is that you can generate the UUID
yourself. It suppose to be a unique number that identifies a VM.

Regards,
Tim

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