[libvirt] Can comments be added to libvirt xml files?

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Fri Aug 15 05:53:27 UTC 2014


On 08/15/2014 12:36 AM, bancfc at openmailbox.org wrote:
> Hi. Is it possible to preserve comments in libvirt's XML files
> without it failing validate-xml checks?
> 

Any comments you add to the XML will be lost when libvirt parses and formats
it again, only the elements libvirt knows will be preserved.

For domains, we have a few elements where you can store your own data:
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsMetadata

For secrets and snapshots, only 'description' is available.

Jan

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