How to change UUID / serial for a guest running on Hyper V ?

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Issue

  • How to change the UUID / serial of a guest running on Hyper V ?
#  dmidecode -s system-uuid
A088F6EB-AC51-4BDC-947B-E5ECA542D2AE
  • How can we modify information provided by BIOS / dmi table for guest running on Hyper V ?
  • Guests created as clones or from templates have same UUID in Hyper V . What can be done to configure unique UUID ?

Environment

  • Microsoft Hyper V
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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