[libvirt] [PATCH] Relax filesystem target type

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 23 22:40:49 UTC 2015


On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:45:03AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> When using QEMU's 9pfs the target "dir" element is not necessarily an
> absolute path. If it is not validation currently fails with the
> misleaading

In fact the target "dir" is not actually a directory at all. With
KVM is is an opaque "tag", so we should not validate this content
at all. We should allow arbitrary content. Yes, the attribute
name is a really unfortunate/awful historical mistake.


Regards,
Daniel
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