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Bug 1598348 - RFE: Support fetching <genid> from VMware guests
Summary: RFE: Support fetching <genid> from VMware guests
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: ---
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Virtualization Maintenance
QA Contact: mxie@redhat.com
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Depends On: vmgenid vmgenid-libvirt 1591628
Blocks: TRACKER-bugs-affecting-libguestfs 1477664 1118825 1159981
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Reported: 2018-07-05 07:48 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2021-12-31 07:26 UTC (History)
25 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of: vmgenid-libvirt
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-12-31 07:26:18 UTC
Type: Feature Request
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2018-07-05 07:48:30 UTC 
Description:

VMware supports genid in its vmx metadata files, eg:

vm.genid = "7344585841658099715"
vm.genidX = "-8483171368186442967"

However the <genid> tag does not appear when dumping the XML of this guest>

# virsh -c vpx://root@xx/data/10.73.72.61/?no_verify=1 dumpxml esx6.0-win2012r2-x86_64 
Enter root's password for xx: 
<domain type='vmware' xmlns:vmware='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/vmware/1.0'>
  <name>esx6.0-win2012r2-x86_64</name>
  <uuid>564d5c84-172a-0ecd-05c9-14003ce70ae3</uuid>
[etc]

We expect to see <genid> here, as described here:

https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsMetadata
Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2018-07-05 07:59:59 UTC 
Hmm, genid should be a UUID, which means 16 unsigned bytes.  I guess vm.genid and vm.genidX are 8 byte signed integers which are supposed to be combined to form the full 16 byte UUID.
Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2018-07-09 15:44:23 UTC 
Hopefully these links will help:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-07/msg02019.html
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/b11b870166b7ae27f728dbb58b6498788bf97329/v2v/input_vmx.ml#L430
Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2021-02-15 07:40:10 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.
Comment 7 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-02-15 09:07:54 UTC 
I'm sorry, this bug was closed in error by the "stale bugs" process.
Comment 11 RHEL Program Management 2021-12-31 07:26:18 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.
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