libvirt users - Jul 2021 - host identifier

Hello community,

I am using OpenStack nova and realize that nova now uses host fqdn from
libvirt as a uniq identifier for a compute node.  The issue is that host
might need to change its fqdn under some
rare circumstances and lose some usage data due to the nova manages
compute node resources.

My question is: does libvirt already export host uuid identifier to other
applications? I skim through the code base and find there is host uuid
related code which reads /etc/machine-id to obtain a uniq uuid for
migration, but seems this uuid cannot be obtained through virsh interface.

Thank you for you help.

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Best Regards,

Jiatong Shen
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 08:31:15AM +0800, Jiatong Shen
wrote:
> Hello community,
> 
> I am using OpenStack nova and realize that nova now uses host fqdn from
> libvirt as a uniq identifier for a compute node.  The issue is that host
> might need to change its fqdn under some
> rare circumstances and lose some usage data due to the nova manages
> compute node resources.
> 
> My question is: does libvirt already export host uuid identifier to other
> applications? I skim through the code base and find there is host uuid
> related code which reads /etc/machine-id to obtain a uniq uuid for
> migration, but seems this uuid cannot be obtained through virsh interface.
Libvirt has long exposed a host UUID in the capabilities XML

Regards,
Daniel
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