Bug 506737 - virt-manager should allow VM names with spaces in them
Summary: virt-manager should allow VM names with spaces in them
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: virt-manager
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Berrangé
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F12VirtTarget
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Reported: 2009-06-18 14:31 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2009-06-23 06:50 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-23 06:50:40 UTC
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Description Dan Winship 2009-06-18 14:31:41 UTC 
I want to be able to have VM names like

    Fedora 10
    Windows XP
    FreeBSD 7.2

but virt-manager won't let me. Is there any good reason for that?

Even if there's something in the system that can't deal with filenames with spaces, it could still allow spaces in the UI...
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-06-22 16:17:43 UTC 
Doesn't seem to be a reason - libvirt allows it
Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2009-06-22 17:03:00 UTC 
I think the original motivation is that xen denies it: that is at least the case for xen in RHEL5 it seems. We could make this hypervisor dependent behind the scenes, but it sucks to have to make such a distinction when validating a name.
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2009-06-22 17:34:08 UTC 
IMHO not allowing special characters in the name is a feature. If we want to have human readable names, we should introduce a new field in the XML for storing this.
Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2009-06-23 06:50:40 UTC 
Okay, that sounds like a WONTFIX
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