- Background
The VM Generation ID is a feature defined by Microsoft (paper:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=260709) and supported by
multiple hypervisor vendors.
The feature can be used to drive the `sysgenid` mechanism required in
virtualized environments by software that works with local
- Background and problem
The System Generation ID feature is required in virtualized or
containerized environments by applications that work with local copies
or caches of world-unique data such as random values, uuids,
monotonically increasing counters, etc.
Such applications can be negatively af
This feature is aimed at virtualized or containerized environments
where VM or container snapshotting duplicates memory state, which is a
challenge for applications that want to generate unique data such as
request IDs, UUIDs, and cryptographic nonces.
The patch set introduces a mechanism that pro
