Title tag will store name with special characters, while name will store with ascii convertion, to keep compatibility with libvirt (that does not accept unicode string on name tag). For for details of this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062943 Signed-off-by: Ramon Medeiros <ramonn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py b/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py index e047228..52e3333 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py +++ b/src/kimchi/vmtemplate.py @@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ class VMTemplate(object): def to_vm_xml(self, vm_name, vm_uuid, **kwargs): params = dict(self.info) - params['name'] = vm_name + params['name'] = unicode(filter(str.isalnum, vm_name.encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'))) + params['title'] = vm_name params['uuid'] = vm_uuid params['networks'] = self._get_networks_xml() params['input_output'] = self._get_input_output_xml() @@ -312,6 +313,7 @@ class VMTemplate(object): <domain type='%(domain)s'> %(qemu-stream-cmdline)s <name>%(name)s</name> + <title>%(title)s</title> <uuid>%(uuid)s</uuid> <memory unit='MiB'>%(memory)s</memory> <vcpu>%(cpus)s</vcpu> -- 2.1.0