[libvirt] [PATCH] 1/4 SMBIOS XML format extension

[Eric Blake]

On 10/21/2010 02:13 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>    The suggested XML description follows the logical structure of the
> data, one top smbios description, with one or more blocks, each
> containing the entries, the example below gives an idea:
>
>    <smbios>
>      <table type="0">
>        <entry name="Vendor">QEmu/KVM</entry>
>        <entry name="Version">0.13</entry>
>      </table>
>      <table type="1">
>        <entry name="Manufacturer">Fedora</entry>
>        <entry name="Product">Virt-Manager</entry>
>        <entry name="Version">0.8.2-3.fc14</entry>
>        <entry name="UUID">c7a5fdbdedaf9455926ad65c16db1809</entry>
>      </table>
>    </smbios>

Seems reasonable to me.

> +<define name="smbios-name">
> +<data type="string">
> +<param name='pattern'>[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\. ]+</param>
                                    ^^^

Is that the range of characters from \ to _, or is just the two 
characters - and _?

> Currently missing is the conf code to save the data back, and
> documentation for the domain extension.

Indeed.

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