Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ipmi: Allow UUID to be set for a BMC

2018-12-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 06/12/18 22:27, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 12/6/18 3:10 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 09/11/18 14:33, Corey Minyard wrote: >>> On 11/8/18 5:22 PM, David Gibson wrote: >>> I'm not sure about migration.  I suppose it could be migrated, but I >>> would consider the BMC part of the hardware that

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ipmi: Allow UUID to be set for a BMC

2018-12-06 Thread Corey Minyard
On 12/6/18 3:10 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 09/11/18 14:33, Corey Minyard wrote: On 11/8/18 5:22 PM, David Gibson wrote: I'm not sure about migration.  I suppose it could be migrated, but I would consider the BMC part of the hardware that needs to be the same on both sides.  It's a fuzzy line,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ipmi: Allow UUID to be set for a BMC

2018-12-06 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/11/18 14:33, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 11/8/18 5:22 PM, David Gibson wrote: > I'm not sure about migration.  I suppose it could be migrated, but I > would consider the BMC part of the hardware that needs to be the > same on both sides.  It's a fuzzy line, I suppose.  The qemu UUID > is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ipmi: Allow UUID to be set for a BMC

2018-11-09 Thread Corey Minyard
On 11/8/18 5:22 PM, David Gibson wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:19:42AM -0600, miny...@acm.org wrote: The code was using the qemu UUID for the BMC. But that's really not a good method. In general, you don't want the GUID to change when you migrate, and you want the GUID to be the same

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ipmi: Allow UUID to be set for a BMC

2018-11-08 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:19:42AM -0600, miny...@acm.org wrote: > The code was using the qemu UUID for the BMC. But that's really > not a good method. In general, you don't want the GUID to change > when you migrate, and you want the GUID to be the same between > invocations of qemu (if you

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ipmi: Allow UUID to be set for a BMC

2018-11-08 Thread minyard
The code was using the qemu UUID for the BMC. But that's really not a good method. In general, you don't want the GUID to change when you migrate, and you want the GUID to be the same between invocations of qemu (if you have a GUID). Plus, if you have multiple BMCs, they need to have different