UUID of a virtual machine as shown by the dmidecode output does not match as reported by the virtual-host-gatherer

[mbelur]

UUID of a virtual machine as shown by the dmidecode output does not match as reported by the virtual-host-gatherer for hardware versions >=13 in VMWare environment.

On a virtual machine with hardware version 13:

localhost:~ # dmidecode -u -t1
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
    Header and Data:
        01 1B 01 00 01 02 03 04 42 22 4E 1B F0 B3 BD 55
        39 C2 26 3F 38 60 83 6F 06 00 00
    Strings:
        56 4D 77 61 72 65 2C 20 49 6E 63 2E 00
        "VMware, Inc."
        56 4D 77 61 72 65 20 56 69 72 74 75 61 6C 20 50
        6C 61 74 66 6F 72 6D 00
        "VMware Virtual Platform"
        4E 6F 6E 65 00
        "None"
        56 4D 77 61 72 65 2D 34 32 20 32 32 20 34 65 20
        31 62 20 66 30 20 62 33 20 62 64 20 35 35 2D 33
        39 20 63 32 20 32 36 20 33 66 20 33 38 20 36 30
        20 38 33 20 36 66 00
        "VMware-42 22 4e 1b f0 b3 bd 55-39 c2 26 3f 38 60 83 6f"

localhost:~ # dmidecode -s system-uuid
1b4e2242-b3f0-55bd-39c2-263f3860836f

virtual-host-gatherer shows:
42224e1b-f0b3-bd55-39c2-263f3860836f

In SCC, you will see 1b4e2242-b3f0-55bd-39c2-263f3860836f for this system.

[mbelur]

Fixed in https://github.com/uyuni-project/virtual-host-gatherer/pull/20

[meaksh]

Thanks for contributing the fix @mbelur !

I'm closing this issue then :+1: