We put a comment containing "virsh edit <domain_name>" at the start of the XML. W3C recommendation forbids the use of "--" in comments [1] and libvirt can't parse it either. This patch omits the domain name if it contains a double hyphen. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments --- src/util/xml.c | 14 +++++++++----- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/xml.c b/src/util/xml.c index 39bc111..f3dc256 100644 --- a/src/util/xml.c +++ b/src/util/xml.c @@ -807,12 +807,16 @@ or other application using the libvirt API.\n\ if (safewrite(fd, cmd, len) != len) return -1; - if (safewrite(fd, " ", 1) != 1) - return -1; + /* Omit the domain name if it contains a double hyphen + * because they aren't allowed in XML comments */ + if (!strstr(name, "--")) { + if (safewrite(fd, " ", 1) != 1) + return -1; - len = strlen(name); - if (safewrite(fd, name, len) != len) - return -1; + len = strlen(name); + if (safewrite(fd, name, len) != len) + return -1; + } len = strlen(epilogue); if (safewrite(fd, epilogue, len) != len)