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VM Generation ID
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{pve} supports VM Generation ID for virtual machines.
This is used in the guest operating system to determine if any
event happened to the vm which might resulted in a time shift event.
{pve} supports Virtual Machine Generation ID ('vmgedid') footnote:[Official
'vmgenid' Specification
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/hyperv_v2/virtual-machine-generation-identifier]
for virtual machines.
This can be used by the guest operating system to detect any event resulting
in a time shift event, for example, restoring a backup or a snapshot rollback.
On creation, a vm generation id will be automatically generated and
set in the configuration.
When creating new VMs, a 'vmgenid' will be automatically generated and saved
in its configuration file.
To disable it, either set the id to `0` or delete the property in the config
with:
To create and add a 'vmgenid' to an already existing VM one can pass the
special value `1' to let {pve} autogenerate one or manually set the 'UUID'
footnote:[Online GUID generator http://guid.one/] by using it as value,
e.g.:
qm set ID -vmgenid 0
qm set ID -delete vmgenid
----
qm set VMID -vmgenid 1
qm set VMID -vmgenid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
----
To create one (either on an older vm or one where you disabled it), either
set the uuid directly or use the special value `1` to let {pve} autogenerate
one:
In the rare case the 'vmgenid' mechanism is not wanted one can pass `0' for
its value on VM creation, or retroactively delete the property in the
configuration with:
qm set ID -vmgenid 1
qm set ID -vmgenid 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
----
qm set VMID -delete vmgenid
----
The most common use case for the vm generation id is for Microsoft Windows
operating system to be able to detect snapshots,backups,clones,etc. in such
a way that services can react to it (e.g. Domain Controllers)
For more information about vm generation id, see
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/hyperv_v2/virtual-machine-generation-identifier
The most prominent use case for 'vmgenid' are newer Microsoft Windows
operating systems, which use it to avoid problems in time sensitive or
replicate services (e.g., databases, domain controller) on snapshot
rollback, backup restore or a whole VM clone operation.
Importing Virtual Machines and disk images
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