[libvirt] [PATCH v3 0/6] qemu: handle ',' and '=' in VM name

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon May 16 14:34:33 UTC 2016


On 05/16/2016 10:07 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/08/2016 02:43 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> This series adds qemu cli comma escaping to several places that
>> are dependent on the VM name, to enable names with embedded commas.
>>
>> Patch 6 makes use of qemu -name guest=X value to allow names with
>> '=' in them.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639926
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1276485
>>
>> Note: There's likely other places that are VM name dependent that need
>> comma escaping too, but this hits the mandatory ones. I've listed some
>> more on the BiteSizedTasks page:
>>
>> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/BiteSizedTasks#qemu:_Use_comma_escaping_for_more_command_line_values
>>
>>
>> v3:
>>     Patch 1 and patch 4 are new
>>
>> Cole Robinson (6):
>>   qemu: command: Add qemuBufferEscapeComma
>>   qemu: command: escape commas in VM name
>>   qemu: command: escape commas in secret master path
>>   qemu: command: escape commas in VNC socket path
>>   qemu: command: escape commas in chardev socket path
>>   qemu: command: Use -name guest= if available
>>
>>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c                       |  2 +
>>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                       |  1 +
>>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 50 ++++++++++++++++------
>>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.1.1-1.x86_64.xml |  1 +
>>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.4.0-1.x86_64.xml |  1 +
>>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.5.0-1.x86_64.xml |  1 +
>>  .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0-1.aarch64.xml  |  1 +
>>  .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0-1.ppc64le.xml  |  1 +
>>  tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0-1.x86_64.xml |  1 +
>>  .../qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0-2.aarch64.xml  |  1 +
>>  tests/qemucaps2xmldata/all_1.6.0-1.caps            |  1 +
>>  tests/qemucaps2xmldata/nodisksnapshot_1.6.0-1.caps |  1 +
>>  .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-name-escape.args | 25 +++++++++++
>>  .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-name-escape.xml  | 19 ++++++++
>>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  3 ++
>>  15 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-name-escape.args
>>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-name-escape.xml
>>
> 
> I think you know you'll have "adjustments" with patch 6 based on recent
> upstream changes to those caps* files... But, as odd as I find the need
> for comma's and equal signs in the guest name and seeing as no other
> agita over this has been brought up...
> 
> ACK series

Thanks, pushed now

- Cole




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