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[Thomas Goirand <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/30/2011 03:02 AM, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> It's a JSON dictionary.  It looks like it's only purpose is for the administrator to set arbitrary key-value pairs, and then get them again later.  It looks completely useless and overdone to me.  Both xapi and Nova already have databases -- I've no idea why someone felt the need to add a third.
> 
> I'd not worry about it if I were you -- as long as the path is set to a directory it can write in, then it'll just quietly stick '{}' in the xenhost.conf and get on with life.
> 
> Ewan.

Thanks Ewan, got it to work with {} in the file.

Thomas