[Bug 959308] Re: kvm does not generate a system uuid by default

[Evan Dandrea]

Thanks for chasing this upstream.

No, an always-changing UUID defeats the purpose for us. We need a means
of providing a key for users to see their crash data, persisted across
installs.

> Not all platforms have a notion of platform UUID so as Ubuntu
> supports more architectures, this problem would have to be dealt
> with eventually.

Sure, and in architectures that do not have a platform UUID, such as
ARM, we'll have to use a combination of other hardware identifiers (such
as mac addresses) to fill the gap. See bug 963007 for one conversation
on that.

But we ultimately need something that ties back to that machine.

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Title:
  kvm does not generate a system uuid by default

Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Booting ubuntu_precise-desktop-i386.iso under kvm results in
  /var/log/upstart/whoopsie.log containing:

    Could not open the product uuid file.

  This is because by default kvm does not create a uuid by default. As
  such, there is no /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid file which whoopsie
  is attempting to read.

  kvm can generate a uuid by booting it with the --uuid option:

      kvm --uuid <uuid> ...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic-pae 3.2.11
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar 19 14:05:46 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  KvmCmdLine:
   UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY          TIME CMD
   james    30178 25913 18 168710 544196 0 13:51 pts/9    00:02:44 kvm -cdrom /home/james/.cache/testdrive/iso/ubuntu_precise-desktop-i386.iso -hda ubuntu-install-testing.kvm -net nic -net user -m 512
  MachineType: LENOVO 2516CTO
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fr_CA.UTF8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-19-generic-pae root=UUID=7ad192e9-7b26-49d1-8e1c-fefc7dc495cb ro acpi_sleep=nonvs console=ttyUSB0,115200n8r console=tty quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (67 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/27/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 6IET72WW (1.32 )
  dmi.board.name: 2516CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6IET72WW(1.32):bd08/27/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2516CTO:pvrThinkPadT410:rvnLENOVO:rn2516CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 2516CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T410
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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