Hi Markus
Thanks for your reply!
Because it's not XML.
That really explains a lot ;-)
I always assumed the "legacy" format from /etc/xen/mydomainconfig (like in RHEL 5) is the native XEN syntax (I see this is not the case.). So, the xml format from libvirt is like a replacement for the configuration in /etc/xen/mydomainconfig? But if I use virt-install (e.g. in Fedora 8) to install a new machine, it does not create a file /etc/xen/ and also no xml. All It does is creating the s-expression file in /var/lib/.
Is there a documentation about the relation between all this different XEN / libvirt configuration files? The architecture part of the documentation on libvirt.org does not answer this question.
cheers
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Markus Armbruster armbru@redhat.com wrote:
Urs Golla urs.golla@gmail.com writes:
Hi,
ok, but why does the file in /var/lib/xend/dom-uuid/config.sxp use such a strange syntax? I mean '()' instead of '<>' and an empty element should look like <name attribute="value"/> not (name value).
Because it's not XML.
if I dump the xml with virsh, it looks much more like a standard xml to me.
Because it's XML.
The .sxp files use Xen's native syntax, which is from the sexp family[*]. libvirt uses XML.