Hyper-v VM does not have uuid set which breaks virt-who mapping

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Issue

The RHEL VMs running on hyper-v do not have uuid set which breaks the virt-who mapping

# dmidecode| egrep -i uuid | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

uuid: not settable
# subscription-manager facts:

...
virt.host_type: hyperv
virt.is_guest: True
virt.uuid: Not Settable

Environment

Hypervisor details:

"hypervisor.type": "hyperv",
"hypervisor.version": "10.0.14393.1532"

For the VM:

RHEL 7.2 VM running on hyper-v

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