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 -- Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83 Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the "microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed. (Linus Torvalds)