Does libvirt enforce any sort of validity of characters in guest names? Someone tried to create a domain called '#' (the single hash character) and noted that this caused failures in virt-tools: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639601 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639602 Had a look at the code but couldn't see anything obvious: It seems like libvirt delegates this entirely to the drivers, the drivers (probably) all call virDomainDefParseXML, and this function does no checking that I could see. If my analysis is correct, this could be dangerous. What if the name contains a character that is special to the qemu command line (','), to XML ('>'), or to C (�)? As an example, the code already does: char *virDomainDefFormat(virDomainDefPtr def, int flags) { ... virBufferEscapeString(&buf, " <name>%s</name>\n", def->name); ... } Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list