On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:52:56PM +0300, Dor Laor wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:41 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > That's very nearly YAML format[1], which is attractive because parsers > > > are available in every major programming language, and it is still > > > pretty human friendly. > > > > > > So my preference would be to go with the last option and make sure > > > it really is YAML compliant so people can use standard tools for > > > generating and parsing the format. > > > > > > > Using a standard format has the added benefit that things like quoting > > are taken care of. > > > > Filenames with leading and trailing spaces, anyone? Embedded control > > characters? > > > > Please don't jump over me but I think it is worth mentioning OVF, at > least for to know what's you opinions.
OVF is insanely overcomplicated. It is also addressing a different problem space, that of virtual machine applinance interchange / distribution. And it is a disgusting format for users to deal with. > Open Virtualization Format - > http://www.vmware.com/appliances/learn/ovf.html > > It's xml based, supported by all major hypervisors, so qemu/kvm/xen > users might eventually use a product that support OVF. > Since its a new format it is open for changes and has lots of > flexibility. As a start we don't have to be completely compatible with > it. It is a 'open' format defined in secret invitation only cabal by a bunch of proprietry software vendors. No thanks. Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel