Depends on which name you're talking about. The one that starts with VM-#### is just as unique as the uuid because the ##### is a db id. I generally like using that versus the uuid because it's is very readable.
I generally believe uuid is something for external people to see. Within the system itself, names constructed from db id is more humanly readable and easier to find. --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Donal Lafferty [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [DISCUSS] StartCommand UUID > > In a plugin that processes the StartCommand command, what are the > constraints on the "id", "uuid" and "name" fields? > > E.g. how unique is each field? > > The background is that I've been using "name" as the VM identifier on > Hyper-V, but it occurs to me that I should probably be using UUID.
