[Users] Setting UUID

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On 18/02/12 20:13, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Itamar Heim wrote:
> 
>> On 02/18/2012 12:40 AM, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to set a specific UUID for a VM?
>>
>> no.
>> may i ask why?
> 
> Many times when we move or copy a guest we need to keep the same UUID.
> As an example we have a VM that is running Centos 4 that we need
> upgraded to Centos 6.2. How we have done this in the past:
> 
> Build new VM
> Install fresh Centos 6.2
> Copy over the application
> Shutdown the first VM
> Shutdown the 2nd VM and change UUID to match first
> Fire up 2nd VM if everything works kill delete 1st VM
> 

How about setting the VM name instead of UUID? It won't update
permissions automatically though.

> We run into all sorts of other situations when we make copies as backups
> and need to go to one of the backups. We never need to run a two VMs
> with the same UUID, but often have a box where we need to change the
> UUID to match what an old box was using.
> 
>> <>
> Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
> nathan at robotics.net                         nathan at blinkmind.com
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