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Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kelly French <kfrench@federalhill.net>, Javier Guerra <javier@guerrag.com>

> Why not just bypass the whole config file idea and just use enviornment
> variables?  

Absolutely not. Environment variables are a horrid way of configuring things.

Paul