[Qemu-discuss] Possible to uniquely identify KVM guests?

2015-04-16 Thread Caspar Smit
Hi All, I searched the mailinglist archives for an answer but couldn't find any so I hope this question wasn't asked already. I'm looking for a way to uniquely identify a KVM guest on different hosts (to prevent running a single license multiple times). For instance I have a Windows 7 KVM Guest

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Possible to uniquely identify KVM guests?

2015-04-16 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 16/04/2015 13:45, Caspar Smit wrote: Hi All, I searched the mailinglist archives for an answer but couldn't find any so I hope this question wasn't asked already. I'm looking for a way to uniquely identify a KVM guest on different hosts (to prevent running a single license multiple times).

Re: [Qemu-discuss] Possible to uniquely identify KVM guests?

2015-04-16 Thread Dale R. Worley
Caspar Smit writes: > I'm looking for a way to uniquely identify a KVM guest on different > hosts (to prevent running a single license multiple times). It's very difficult to do this unless the hardware provides a "processor serial number" instruction that isn't privileged, i.e., doesn't cause an