From b557a36890bb7501275297095dd211d83b6c18bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:21:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow leading dots in VMX config entry names

* src/conf.c: the virConfParser must accept leading dot when in VMX mode
---
 src/conf.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/conf.c b/src/conf.c
index c51531e51c..2aa4a55f8c 100644
--- a/src/conf.c
+++ b/src/conf.c
@@ -534,7 +534,8 @@ virConfParseName(virConfParserCtxtPtr ctxt)
     SKIP_BLANKS;
     base = ctxt->cur;
     /* TODO: probably need encoding support and UTF-8 parsing ! */
-    if (!c_isalpha(CUR)) {
+    if (!c_isalpha(CUR) &&
+        !((ctxt->conf->flags & VIR_CONF_FLAG_VMX_FORMAT) && (CUR == '.'))) {
         virConfError(ctxt, VIR_ERR_CONF_SYNTAX, _("expecting a name"));
         return(NULL);
     }
-- 
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