Okay, the problem is in libvirt's VMX parser. This entry in the VMX file: guest.commands.sharedSecretLogin.hostd-quiescedsnap = "..." contains a '-' in the name. The parser doesn't expect this and outputs the error you see. I posted a patch to the list (and CCed you) that fixes this bug and adds a new test case based on your attached .vmx file. Matthias 2010/9/22 frank dirks <frankdirks@gmx.net>:
Hi,
you are right - the problem is specific to only that one vmx file - for other virtual machines dumpxml is working, as i found out.
i am using esxi 4.1.0 and virsh 0.8.4. the machine was created using vsphere client, and was cloned and renamed afterwards - maybe that was the problem ...
regards, frank
Hm, that's strange. The .vmx config seems to be malformed.
What libvirt version and what ESXi version do you use?
How did you create the vmtest.local guest and can you start it?
Could you show us the original .vmx config file? You can get if by opening https://esx1.local/folder/ in a web browser and clicking through the directory tree until you get to vmtest.local.vmx.
Matthias
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