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March 4, 2014 19:03
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| # Works on any machine with 1 ethernet (eth0) | |
| cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address | |
| # Works on { VMWARE, Baremetal, KVM (if setted with -uuid %s) }, Fail on { AWS/XEN } | |
| cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid | |
| dmidecode -s system-uuid | |
| # Works on { VMWARE, Baremetal }, Fail on { AWS/XEN, KVM } | |
| cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_serial | |
| # Works on { AWS/XEN }, Fail on { VMWARE, Baremetal, KVM } | |
| cat /sys/hypervisor/uuid | |
| curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id |
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It's no longer the case with AWS, please see the testing we did to improve Weave Net.