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To:     Babis Chalios <bchalios@amazon.es>, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
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On 6/7/23 12:13, Babis Chalios wrote:
> 
> 
> On our side, we 've been working on providing ways to let VMs (kernel
>  and user space) know that they have been cloned/snapshotted/restored
> from snapshots[1].
> 
> This is tightly coupled with PRNGs both in kernel and user space and
>  there needs to be some collaboration with random.c to tie everything
> together [2][3]. It sounds like it could be a good fit for this MC
> (?).

Does the VM generation ID ACPI device from Microsoft work for you?  It 
is not tied to Hyper-V.

Paolo