[libvirt] Valid characters in domain names?

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Sun Oct 3 12:51:12 UTC 2010


On 10/03/2010 08:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
<snip>
> Indeed.  I'm sure we need a whitelist, not a blacklist as suggested by
> the other comment.  All domains I'd ever want to create would match
> the regexp
>
> ^[[:alpha:]][-_[:alnum:]]*$
>
> This might break existing users however.

Wonder if there are characters supported by some hypervisors, but not
others?

   ie maybe Xen supports '/', '*', '+' in guest names, but ESX doesn't

That could lead to some interesting guest import problems. :(





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