[Libvir] libvirtd - configuration file
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Wed Jan 31 16:47:20 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:25:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:49:32PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >
> > Libvirtd needs a configuration file. It's very simple - just to store
> > the services on which it's listening, and optionally to configure port
> > numbers and paths.
> >
> > Libvirt so far doesn't have a concept of a configuration file, except
> > that obviously domain descriptions come out of XML files.
> >
> > Do people on list have a preference for a style of configuration file?
> > An alternative is to configure entirely via the command line.
>
> We do actually have a simple text based config file parser we use for
> grokking the /etc/xen config files we could re-use. Technically the
> files in /etc/xen are pure python, but our config parser only allows
> plain strings, ints & lists so is safe to use. It can read and write
> configs, preserving formatting.
+1
> > PS: Personally when administering a machine there is nothing worse than
> > finding an XML configuration file ...
> Yeah, XML is fine for internal configs which a user doesn't need to touch,
> but for admin facing configs in /etc/ we definitely want plain text
> based format.
+1 too :-)
Daniel
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