[libvirt] Libvirt xl to xml converter only picks up first occurrence of an option
Wei Liu
wei.liu2 at citrix.com
Thu Oct 26 10:41:59 UTC 2017
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:53:01PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 10/20/2017 08:46 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Hi Jim
>
> Hi Wei,
>
> Sorry for the delay. Catching up on mail after some days off...
>
> > I discovered that libvirt's native config file to xml converter for
> > libxl only pick up the first occurrence of an option.
> >
> > For example in a xl cfg file:
> >
> > extra = "abc"
> > ...
> > extra = "def"
> >
> > xl will pick up "def" because that shows up later and takes precedence,
> > while the converter picks up "abc".
> >
> > I think this is a bug in the converter and should be fixed.
>
> Thanks for the report. I took a quick peek at libvirt's generic config
> parser and afaict it only searches for the first occurrence of a setting.
> The parser does support flags though, so we could add something like
> VIR_CONF_FLAG_{FIRST,LAST}_DUPLICATE. (Better name suggestions welcomed.)
>
I'm normally very bad at naming things so I will refrain from making
suggestions.
> I've opened a bug report against openSUSE Factory to track this
>
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065118
>
Thanks!
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