[libvirt] [PATCH v2 4/4] Adjust improperly formatted <sysinfo> uuid

[Eric Blake]

On 05/13/2013 11:01 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> If the <sysinfo> system table 'uuid' field is improperly formatted,
> then qemu will fail to start the guest with the error:
> 
> virsh start dom
> error: Failed to start domain dom
> error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: Invalid SMBIOS UUID string
> 
> This was because the parsing rules were lax with respect to allowing extraneous
> spaces and dashes in the provided UUID.  As long as there were 32 hexavalues
> that matched the UUID for the domain the string was accepted. However startup
> failed because the string format wasn't correct. This patch will adjust the
> string format so that when it's presented to the driver it's in the expected
> format.
> 
> Addded a test for uuid comparison within sysinfo.

s/Addded/Added/

> ---
>  src/conf/domain_conf.c                             | 54 ++++++++++++++--------
>  .../qemuxml2argv-smbios-uuid-match.xml             | 23 +++++++++
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smbios-uuid-match.xml
> 

ACK.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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