Allow leading dots in VMX config entry names

* src/conf.c: the virConfParser must accept leading dot when in VMX mode

diff --git a/src/conf.c b/src/conf.c
index c51531e51cabba1a8be787f60a97191c4b7a1ff1..2aa4a55f8ca967d94a76e0c9d3f338353af3b8fb 100644 (file)
--- 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);
     }