[et-mgmt-tools] libvirt and query strings in EL 5.1 behaves differently than F9

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:51:31PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:36:25PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >  
> >>>If you're using virt-install
> >>>APIs for building the XML document, then it is virt-install's job to do
> >>>attribute escaping. This was broken in RHEL-5.1 and is fixed for 5.2
> >>>and Fedora 8 onwards
> >>>
> >>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417051
> >>>
> >>>Dan.
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>So looking at what I posted previously, ex:
> >>
> >>   http://server.example.com/?op=ks;profile=foo
> >>
> >>";" is (to my eyes) valid in XML.  It is, right?  Any idea why that may 
> >>cause an error on Pablo's system?
> >>    
> >
> >Please send the actual error message you get...
> >
> >Dan.
> >  
> 
> Sure... http://cobbler.pastebin.com/f50f3fa63
> 
>   1.
>      libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err
>      'Invalid configuration unexpected EOF')
>   2.
>      virDomainCreateLinux() failed POST operation failed: (xend.err
>      'Invalid configuration unexpected EOF')

This is XenD itself choking on the SEXPR being given to it. It doesn't
seem to like the ';' character, for unknown reasons. Perhaps you can
use a hex code instead ?

Dan.
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