Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] /sys/hypervisor/uuid

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 May 2006, at 18:20, Markus Armbruster wrote:

> New /sys/hypervisor/uuid, containing this domain's UUID.
>
> Stripping off /vm/ from the value of vm to get the UUID isn't exactly
> nice.  The alternative is to add a XENVER_get_uuid code to
> HYPERVISOR_xen_version(), but I'm not sure that's worth it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
Christian has a fair point that, if you're just reading it out of 
xenstore, you could do that directly from user space. I suppose there 
is an argument of necessary privileges to do so however, since you need 
to be root to open the xenstore device file.
 -- Keir


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