diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c0a831b..9fc8241 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DBUS_USE_SYNC], [$have_sync], [Use the gcc __sync extension]
 AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket,[socket network])
 AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname,,[AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname)])
 
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(vsnprintf vasprintf nanosleep usleep setenv clearenv unsetenv socketpair getgrouplist fpathconf setrlimit poll setlocale localeconv strtoll strtoull)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(vsnprintf vasprintf nanosleep usleep setenv clearenv unsetenv socketpair getgrouplist fpathconf setrlimit poll setlocale localeconv strtoll strtoull gethostuuid)
 
 #### Check for broken poll; taken from Glib's configure
 
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
index e859ec6..6f295c3 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
@@ -3278,6 +3278,7 @@ _dbus_get_autolaunch_address (DBusString *address,
  * without rebooting I believe). If there's no standard one
  * we might want to use the registry instead of a file for
  * this, and I'm not sure how we'd ensure the uuid gets created.
+ * On OSX >= 10.6, uses function gethostuuid() to get hardware UUID.
  *
  * @param machine_id guid to init with the machine's uuid
  * @param create_if_not_found try to create the uuid if it doesn't exist
@@ -3289,9 +3290,25 @@ _dbus_read_local_machine_uuid (DBusGUID   *machine_id,
                                dbus_bool_t create_if_not_found,
                                DBusError  *error)
 {
+#ifndef HAVE_GETHOSTUUID
   DBusString filename;
-  _dbus_string_init_const (&filename, DBUS_MACHINE_UUID_FILE);
+  const char *uuidfile = _dbus_getenv ("DBUS_MACHINE_UUID_FILE");
+  if (uuidfile == NULL)
+    uuidfile = DBUS_MACHINE_UUID_FILE;
+  _dbus_string_init_const (&filename, uuidfile);
   return _dbus_read_uuid_file (&filename, machine_id, create_if_not_found, error);
+#else
+  uuid_t uuid;
+  struct timespec timeout = {0, 0};
+  if (gethostuuid (uuid, &timeout) == -1)
+    {
+      dbus_set_error (error, DBUS_ERROR_FAILED,
+                      "Failed to retrieve host UUID\n");
+      return FALSE;
+    }
+  memcpy (machine_id->as_bytes, uuid, DBUS_UUID_LENGTH_BYTES);
+  return TRUE;
+#endif
 }
 
 #define DBUS_UNIX_STANDARD_SESSION_SERVICEDIR "/dbus-1/services"