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[Martin Packman <martin.packman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16/05/2012, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> AFAIK there isn't a way to get the uuid from the metadata server in essex.
> We were also discussing that it might be valuable for the ec2 api to tag the
> uuid onto the instance, but that doesn't help for essex either.

Thanks, will see if there's another way around. Treating the integer
form as the canonical id would also work, but I think there's no way
of getting it from the openstack api given a uuid. Adding extra
openstack details to the ec2 xml output is an interesting idea as
well.

Martin