VM BIOS UUID hosted on ahv hypervisor

Hi @IsmailS 

Nice to meet you, are you hoping to achieve this via UI, CLI or API?

Thanks,

Kim

Hi there,

I’ve not tested this recently but I had to convert the ID of the VM (taken from Prism) to that of what was picked up on PXE booting for installations of OS.

If you try this it might work…

function Convert-GuidToOctetString

{

    param

    (

        [String]$Guid

    );

    [Guid]$g = New-Object Guid;

    if([Guid]::TryParse($Guid, [ref]$g))

    {

        return ([System.String]::Join('', ($g.ToByteArray() | ForEach-Object { $_.ToString('x2') })).ToUpper());

    }

    else

    {

        throw Exception("Input string is not a valid GUID")

    }

}

$uuid = “the ID from above” ; Convert-GuidToOctetString

I can’t recall where I originally found this - it is seen widely online though - https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1633583-convert-guid-to-octet etc

If not, then I think virsh dumpxml is the only hope we have without some creativity.