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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] creating a domU with a particular UUID with xen-unstable
- To: "Andrew D. Ball" <aball@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:40:11 -0800
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It would seem to me that if you either seeded the UUID from the initial
physical machine's MAC address (assuming that one can do that) or
if you concatenated a MAC address from the physical machine
with a 64-bit time value that your odds of collision would be
vanishingly small.
-Kip
On 10/31/05, Andrew D. Ball <aball@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It looks like I can do this by starting a domain from an SXP directly instead of a Python-based configuration.
If I use a suitable algorithm for generating UUIDs, I should be able to guarantee at least an extremely low probability of UUID collisions
across an entire farm of systems running Xen. I will read up some more on the ISO UUID algorithm commonly used by hardware manufacturers. I don't trust it quite yet, but it does seem that this is in line with its
purpose.
I'm not really fond of the behavior of domain name collisions. I don't want to have to query some sort of farm-wide database to see if a domain name isn't being used to guarantee uniqueness, but I want to be able to
guarantee that I'll never have a domain name collision when doing a live migration of a domU to another system. They are nice to have around for being easily readable by humans though.
Thanks for your help.
Andrew
Anthony Liguori wrote: > Andrew D. Ball wrote: > >> Is it possible with xen-unstable (hopefully soon to be Xen 3.0) to >> create a domU with a particular UUID? I don't want the UUID for a
>> domain to change when I destroy it and create it again from the same >> configuration. > > > You could always make the domain's name it's UUID. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori
> >> This doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with xenstore's >> being persistent, it could just involve a configuration option similar >> to the one for virtual NICs where MAC addresses can be assigned
>> explicitly if desired but will be pseudo-randomly generated otherwise. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________
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