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

[Matthias Bolte]

2009/6/19 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> 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
>

Good advice. I've done this now and attached the patch for it. The
first patch got already commited, thanks to Daniel Veillard.

Regards,
  Matthias
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