diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6aea8e9078..18b1919a7a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Jul 13 23:33:48 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/xml.c: applied patch from Peter Vetere to pass down the
+	  UUID from the XML description if present when creating the domain.
+
 Tue Jul 11 18:03:51 CEST 2006 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 
 	* configure.in libvirt.spec.in docs/* NEWS: preparing release of
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index c48c0a4c5c..3efe780a33 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@ BuildRequires: xen python python-devel
 Requires: xen
 Requires: libxml2
 Requires: readline
+Requires: ncurses
 BuildRequires: libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires: readline-devel
+BuildRequires: ncurses-devel
 Obsoletes: libvir
 ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64
 
diff --git a/src/xml.c b/src/xml.c
index b30c00d292..798f53461f 100644
--- a/src/xml.c
+++ b/src/xml.c
@@ -1019,6 +1019,13 @@ virDomainParseXMLDesc(const char *xmldesc, char **name)
     }
     xmlXPathFreeObject(obj);
 
+    obj = xmlXPathEval(BAD_CAST "string(/domain/uuid[1])", ctxt);
+    if ((obj == NULL) || (obj->type == XPATH_STRING) &&
+        (obj->stringval != NULL) && (obj->stringval[0] != 0)) {
+        virBufferVSprintf(&buf, "(uuid '%s')", obj->stringval);
+    }
+    xmlXPathFreeObject(obj);
+
     obj = xmlXPathEval(BAD_CAST "string(/domain/bootloader[1])", ctxt);
     if ((obj != NULL) && (obj->type == XPATH_STRING) &&
         (obj->stringval != NULL) && (obj->stringval[0] != 0)) {