Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V15 4/5] i386: add a Virtual Machine Generation ID device

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> 
> On 08/06/2015 17:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Are there applications that would actually use this?  For microsoft this
> > seems to be mostly driven by ActiveDirectory needs.
> > It seems quite possible that applications solve the problem
> > differently on Linux.
> 
> I'm not aware of a different solution to the problem on Linux.
> 
> Paolo

Adding it by default for everyone still seems too aggressive.
We had a ton of pain with pvpanic exactly because of a
similar "can't hurt" approach.  

I think a better approach would be to merge the code in qemu,
merge a linux driver. Once that's available, and some apps use it,
enabling it by default will seem more reasonable.

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MST