Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 428879
Libvirt lacks xml escaping for xm config parsing
Last modified: 2009-12-14 16:23:09 EST
If you manually edit an xm config file to add a disk path containing the '&' character, virt-manager and virtinst start dumping lots of errors like: Entity: line 14: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name <source file='/var/lib/xen/images/test&.img'/> ^ Since 'xm create' works fine with this config file and an '&' is a valid character to have in a path, this seems like a bug. See also bz 428209 for a similar bug. # rpm -q libvirt libvirt-0.3.3-4.el5
Still current, trivial to reproduce: [root@test2 ~]# grep test /etc/xen/migr5 disk = [ "tap:aio:/virt/migr5&test,xvda,w" ] [root@test2 ~]# virsh dumpxml migr5 | grep source <source file='/virt/migr5&test'/> <source bridge='xenbr0'/> [root@test2 ~]# we need to XML escape path strings in the xm driver. This should not be too hard, assuming it's not fixed already upstream. Daniel
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release.
Okay I have built a version libvirt-0.3.3-9.el5 in dist-5E-qu-candidate with the fix, Daniel
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0142.html