https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189965 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189965#c19 --- Comment #19 from Michael H. Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> --- The benefit would be that the version information is available directly to Hyper-V. There have been one or two times in the past where Hyper-V needed to do something different based on the version information in the Linux guest ID because of a bug in certain Linux versions or because of a need to maintain some other backwards compatibility. It's a mechanism of last resort, but we've gotten stuck in a couple of cases. There is also VM telemetry that we get directly from the Hyper-V on the Azure hosts. The guest OS ID helps us bucket the data by Linux kernel version, without having to do a costly cross-reference to find the image that was deployed, especially if it was a custom image from the customer. But notwithstanding all that, my previous comments still stand. I don't think the marginal benefit is necessarily worth the effort of putting a valid value in the "d2" field. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.