Re: [Libvir] libvirtd - configuration file

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:49:32PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Libvirtd needs a configuration file. It's very simple - just to store > the services on which it's listening, and optionally to configure port > numbers and paths. > > Libvirt so far doesn't have a concept of a configuration file, except > that obviously domain descriptions come out of XML files. > > Do people on list have a preference for a style of configuration file? > An alternative is to configure entirely via the command line. We do actually have a simple text based config file parser we use for grokking the /etc/xen config files we could re-use. Technically the files in /etc/xen are pure python, but our config parser only allows plain strings, ints & lists so is safe to use. It can read and write configs, preserving formatting.

> PS: Personally when administering a machine there is nothing worse than > finding an XML configuration file ...

Yeah, XML is fine for internal configs which a user doesn't need to touch, but for admin facing configs in /etc/ we definitely want plain text based format.