Description of problem: There are two connected issues. (1) It may be that the hyphen syntax we use to delete registry keys may in fact be wrong. We need to compare this to what Windows registry tools actually do. See also: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310516 (2) We don't document the regedit format that we accept anywhere in manual pages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.13.11 Additional info: Issue raised by traxmac @ IRC.
See also: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Windows_Registry#.REG_files
Example of what traxmac was trying: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=522891
Our syntax for deleting keys and values was wrong. I've pushed commits to hivex and libguestfs that fix it: http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=commitdiff;h=855df874403b11ea426c5c6fa708e52ab0b2f042 http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=21a4cf7ef54a8598126f39023a51ef43415679dc