Instead of requiring a serial of arbitrary length/format, I think a WWN/EUI-64 is more useful/important, not to mention that the WWN/EUI-64 can pretty much always be used as the serial at the same time.
Unlike Linux, Windows consider the WWN/EUI-64 as the "serial":
Instead of requiring a serial of arbitrary length/format, I think a WWN/EUI-64 is more useful/important, not to mention that the WWN/EUI-64 can pretty much always be used as the serial at the same time.
Unlike Linux, Windows consider the WWN/EUI-64 as the "serial":
"C:\Windows\ system32> sg_vpd -i PD1 31698
Device Identification VPD page:
Addressed logical unit:
designator type: SCSI name string, code set: UTF-8
SCSI name string:
8086QEMU NVMe Ctrl 00012BDAC262CF8
C:\Windows\ system32> sg_vpd -p sn PD1 0000_0000. "
Unit serial number VPD page:
Unit serial number: 0000_0000_
(https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/qemu/ +bug/1576347/ +attachment/ 4650553/ +files/ 02.PNG)
UEFI also makes use of the WWN/EUI-64 to generate boot entries for NVMe devices: /bugs.launchpad .net/qemu/ +bug/1576347/ +attachment/ 4650554/ +files/ 03.png /bugs.launchpad .net/qemu/ +bug/1576347/ +attachment/ 4650555/ +files/ 04.png
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