[libvirt] Extend virConfParser to allow parsing VMware VMX config files

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:01:20AM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As part of the VMware ESX driver I need to parse VMware VMX config
> files. This files have basically the same syntax as Xen config files,
> but the key part of the key=value format is allowed to contain ':' and
> '.'.
> 
> The attached patch adds a flag to the virConfParser to enabled a VMX
> mode for the parser to allow ':' and '.' in the key, as suggested by
> Daniel P. Berrange on IRC.

ACK, looks fine to me - though I'm wondering if you might also want to
explicitly turn off support for lists ? IIIRC the VMware config values
were only scalars, so for safety you might want the parser to refuse
to parse / generate lists.

Daniel

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