[Fusioninventory-user] Container OpenVZ (Proxmox) and UUID

[Kevin Roy]

Hi Matthieu,

On 26 May 2015 at 14:17,  <Matthieu.Marc at ensam.eu> wrote:
>> It's a strange behavior, UUID may be unique, so not normal.
>
> There is another problem.
>
> I managed to make dmidecode work on openvz container.
>
> vzctl set $VEID --devnodes mem:r --save
> and
> vzctl set $ VEID --capability sys_rawio:on --save
>
> restart the openvz container and dmidecode is working.
>
> BUT !
>
> The UUID found is the UUID of the host (my proxmox). So, both host and guest have the same UUID.
>
> I think, it will be interesting to make the guest UUID using the host UUID and the VM ID, and to make the VIRTUALMACHINE entry of the host using the same format (UUID + VM ID).
>
> So that, the UUID will be unique, and we will be able to have several host server with guest having the same VM ID.

According to proxmox forums [1], you should generate and set the UUID
manually to your VMID.conf.

[1] http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/9499-No-UUID-on-VM-KVM-hosts-(spacewalk)?s=57f0b909ce961fdf305c72570e8ffb31
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Kevin Roy