Bug 1118883

Summary:	[RFE] generate uuid for vdsm.id on deployment
Product:	[oVirt] ovirt-host-deploy	Reporter:	Joop van de Wege <jvandewege>
Component:	Plugins.VDSM	Assignee:	Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Pavel Stehlik <pstehlik>
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Version:	1.0.0	CC:	acathrow, alonbl, bazulay, bugs, dougsland, gklein, iheim, jvandewege, mgoldboi, yeylon
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Last Closed:	2014-07-28 04:55:44 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Joop van de Wege 2014-07-11 19:17:33 UTC

After some discussion on the ML this RFE request.
There are quite a few hardware vendors that don't fill in thee systems uuid which leads to vdsm not being installed during host deployment.
This problem can  be circumvented by using uuidgen instead of relying on dmidecode returning the uuid.

Comment 1 Douglas Schilling Landgraf 2014-07-11 20:50:19 UTC

Ref.:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025822.html
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025831.html

Comment 2 Alon Bar-Lev 2014-07-15 11:15:21 UTC

(In reply to Douglas Schilling Landgraf from comment #1)
> Ref.:
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025822.html
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025831.html

From the reference you created a duplicate of a system, but in order it to be unique you need to remove /etc/vdsm/vdsm.id and probably other system static identities, such as dhcp host id. Then redeploy the host.

If you like to move the mass storage device between hosts, you should also put a random uuid within /etc/vdsm/vdsm.id after each clone, this will enable the new host to be detached from its clone, regardless of the host it is being installed.

Comment 3 Joop van de Wege 2014-09-22 11:23:14 UTC

Hi Alon,

You closed the BZ but I still get email asking for more info.
Ah, see the checkbox below my typing so this should be the last time :-)

Joop