On 02/08/2013 11:44 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote: >> Seems this should be in a more "general" location. Would the same rules apply to >> other objects (networks, storage, etc.)? What other characters should be avoided? >> Having a comma, semi-colon, colon, etc. could have interesting results. > > Yeah, comma is an interesting one for qemu since that delimits option > subarguments. E.g. trying to start a qemu instance with name 'foo,bar' > results in > > $ virsh start "foo,bar" > error: Failed to start domain foo,bar > error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: > Unknown subargument bar to -name That's an independent bug - we already have a function for properly quoting commas when passing to qemu; if we would use that function properly, the command line would be -name foo,,bar, at which point qemu would be using 'foo,bar' internally anywhere the name is needed. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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