From: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:26:18 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Allow custom metadata in domain configuration XML
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.10-rc1~135
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa981fc945e7995aef0e828cfbce3cfda87bfe04;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git
Allow custom metadata in domain configuration XML
Applications can now insert custom nodes and hierarchies into domain
configuration XML. Although currently not enforced, applications are
required to use their own namespaces on every custom node they insert,
with only one top-level element per namespace.
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diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 783c48a16e..f383c660ab 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ Patches have also been contributed by:
Deepak C Shetty
Martin Kletzander
Laszlo Ersek
+ Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
[....send patches to get your name here....]
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 6667bed6b5..6b025e8564 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -3556,6 +3556,26 @@ qemu-kvm -net nic,model=? /dev/null
sub-element label are supported.
The metadata node can be used by applications to
+ store custom metadata in the form of XML nodes/trees. Applications
+ must use custom namespaces on their XML nodes/trees, with only
+ one top-level element per namespace (if the application needs
+ structure, they should have sub-elements to their namespace
+ element). Since 0.9.10