A bit of a followup on <my question> in <#C08V7KTJ...
# macosa
Andrew Zick
03/20/2023, 10:26 PMA bit of a followup on my question in #general, for Mac, I don’t quite understand where this call to
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zwass
03/21/2023, 1:38 AM
zwass
03/21/2023, 1:39 AM
In my experience, the hardware UUIDs generated by macOS are quite stable.
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Andrew Zick
03/21/2023, 1:39 AMAh you’ve predicted my second question, which isn’t so much looking for an answer as saying “hey I’ve run into a situation where two MacOS devices have the same uuid, is this odd?”
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zwass
03/21/2023, 1:40 AM
Yes, I would say that is very odd.
zwass
03/21/2023, 1:40 AM
Less odd if they are VMs though.
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Andrew Zick
03/21/2023, 1:40 AMRight, unfortunately I’ll have to dig in more as I don’t think VMs are to blame. Thank you!
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Brian Bergstrand
03/21/2023, 4:05 PMThe only time the hardware UUID will change on Macs is if the motherboard is replaced.
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Grigory Emelianov
06/23/2023, 1:38 PMI ran into this issue as well on some tests. Really weird. But when checking the real UUID on the device they were different!
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