SMBIOS UUID will appear mangled under Windows VMs that run on top of RHEL 6 and non-RHEV RHEL 7.
Issue
Windows VMs will show UUID as mangled, specifically it will reverse the order of bytes in the first three parts of the UUID (separately for each part).
For example: for a VM with UUID of 97C60A04-65BF-4CFF-8970-6F3ED302B591,
the UUID will be shown as 040AC697-BF65-FF4C-8970-6F3ED302B591.
Environment
All qemu-kvm guests running on RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 hosts, with the exception of RHEL 7 hosts which are part of RHEV installation.
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