On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:25:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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.
+1
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.
+1 too :-) Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/