Package: debvm Version: 0.4.0 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: Stefano Rivera <[email protected]>
Stefano discovered that images created by debefivm-create include a /etc/machine-id with non-trivial content. For initially provisioned images, /etc/machine-id should be empty and this is what mmdebstrap and also debvm-create do. An empty /etc/machine-id improves reproducibility as will be initialized on first boot by systemd to a random value. As a result, such an image may be instantiated multiple times ensuring a unique machine-id. However, debefivm-create for some reason populates it with a random value and should not do that. Helmut
