<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Michal Skrivanek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michal.skrivanek@redhat.com" target="_blank">michal.skrivanek@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On 30 Dec 2017, at 06:54, Blaster <<a href="mailto:blaster@556nato.com" target="_blank">blaster@556nato.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p>I need to create an old oVirt Windows VM. The VM has an old
licensed product that we can no longer get a licensed reissued
for. It looks like I need to feed back the original qemu UUID
that was used when the VM was created.</p><p>I have an engine config backup and a backup of the oVirt storage
domain.</p><p>I viewed the engine backup, but the format as-is doesn't give any
obvious configuration details of the VMs at the time of the
backup. Is the UUID as obvious as the file name of the VM's boot
volume UUID name?</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it's the field 'vm_guid' in the table 'vm_static'.<br><br></div><div>You can restore the backup on a temp vm somewhere - make sure it has no<br></div><div>access to your hosts so that the engine will not start to manage them -<br></div><div>or just look at the db dump. The backup is a tar file, and you can look<br></div><div>at db dumps inside it using 'pg_restore filename | less'.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div><br></div></div></div>The guest UUID is configurable per VM in Edit dialog, you can use a custom value<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p><br>
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