Re: Libvirt xl to xml converter only picks up first occurrence of an option

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On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:53:01PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 10/20/2017 08:46 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Hi Jim
> 
> Hi Wei,
> 
> Sorry for the delay. Catching up on mail after some days off...
> 
> > I discovered that libvirt's native config file to xml converter for
> > libxl only pick up the first occurrence of an option.
> > 
> > For example in a xl cfg file:
> > 
> > extra = "abc"
> > ...
> > extra = "def"
> > 
> > xl will pick up "def" because that shows up later and takes precedence,
> > while the converter picks up "abc".
> > 
> > I think this is a bug in the converter and should be fixed.
> 
> Thanks for the report. I took a quick peek at libvirt's generic config
> parser and afaict it only searches for the first occurrence of a setting.
> The parser does support flags though, so we could add something like
> VIR_CONF_FLAG_{FIRST,LAST}_DUPLICATE. (Better name suggestions welcomed.)
> 

I'm normally very bad at naming things so I will refrain from making
suggestions.

> I've opened a bug report against openSUSE Factory to track this
> 
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065118
> 

Thanks!

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