[ovirt-users] Get UU

[Blaster]

On 12/31/2017 1:23 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Michal Skrivanek 
> <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com <mailto:michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 30 Dec 2017, at 06:54, Blaster <blaster at 556nato.com
>     <mailto:blaster at 556nato.com>> wrote:
>
>>     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.
>>
>>     I have an engine config backup and a backup of the oVirt storage
>>     domain.
>>
>>     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?
>>
>
> I think it's the field 'vm_guid' in the table 'vm_static'.
>
> You can restore the backup on a temp vm somewhere - make sure it has no
> access to your hosts so that the engine will not start to manage them -
> or just look at the db dump. The backup is a tar file, and you can look
> at db dumps inside it using 'pg_restore filename | less'.
>
>
>     The guest UUID is configurable per VM in Edit dialog, you can use
>     a custom value
>

Thank you, I was able to get the UUID back!


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