[OpenBIOS] Qemu, OpenBIOS, and HostID

[Nick Couchman]

> 
> Okay that's something that's fairly easy to do. My main questions would be:
> 
> i) if nothing looks at hostid, then would it matter that it is all zeros?
> 

There are a few things that do - software licenses, for example.  FlexLM/FlexNet, in particular, on Solaris, use the Host ID value and not the MAC address (which is used on almost every other platform).

-Nick



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