Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: Copy /etc/machine-id from host system into the appliance.

On Tuesday 29 March 2016 16:50:01 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > +# Create a machine-id with a random UUID > > +dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=16 status=none | od -x -A n | sed -e 's, ,,g' > /etc/machine-id > > Out of interest, why read single bytes, and not the whole 16 bytes in > one go? Just habit :) (It works the same with bs=16 count=1 of course -- did the change locally.)