The original implementation of the VMX config parser assumed that the virtualHW.version would have more influence on the content of the VMX file than it actually seems to have. It started with accepting only version 4. Additonal versions were added later without any additional changes in the parser itself. This suggests that the influence of the virtualHW.version on the content and format of the VMX file is small or non-existent. The parser worked without any changes across several virtualHW and vSphere versions. So instead of adding new virtualHW.version values to the parser as they come along, or adding an extra flag to allow unknown virtualHW.version values just relax the check to require version 4 or later. --- This patch is meant as a alternative for this patch series: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00122.html src/vmx/vmx.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/vmx/vmx.c b/src/vmx/vmx.c index 169440c..ce228d4 100644 --- a/src/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/src/vmx/vmx.c @@ -1316,12 +1316,10 @@ virVMXParseConfig(virVMXContext *ctx, goto cleanup; } - if (virtualHW_version != 4 && virtualHW_version != 7 && - virtualHW_version != 8 && virtualHW_version != 9 && - virtualHW_version != 10) { + if (virtualHW_version < 4) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, _("Expecting VMX entry 'virtualHW.version' to be " - "4, 7, 8, 9 or 10 but found %lld"), + "4 or higher but found %lld"), virtualHW_version); goto cleanup; } -- 1.8.1.2