From: Jack Lange <jarusl@cs.northwestern.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:25:28 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: added user space configuration build system
X-Git-Url: http://v3vee.org/palacios/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=palacios.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3cf3fcc643f04aaa516da88a8ef3726cddfbbc0b

added user space configuration build system
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diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/Makefile b/utils/guest_creator/Makefile
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+++ b/utils/guest_creator/Makefile
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+
+CC = gcc
+CFLAGS = -Wall -g 
+LDFLAGS = 
+
+
+OBJS = main.c ezxml.c
+
+all: builder
+
+
+builder: $(OBJS)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) -o build_vm
+
+clean: 	
+	rm -f *.o build_vm
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/README b/utils/guest_creator/README
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/utils/guest_creator/README
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright 2004-2006 Aaron Voisine <aaron@voisine.org>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.c b/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.c
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.c
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+/* ezxml.c
+ *
+ * Copyright 2004-2006 Aaron Voisine <aaron@voisine.org>
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+ * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+ * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+ * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+ * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+ * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+ * the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+ * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+ * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+ * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+ * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+ * CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+ * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+ * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#ifndef EZXML_NOMMAP
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#endif // EZXML_NOMMAP
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include "ezxml.h"
+
+#define EZXML_WS   "\t\r\n "  // whitespace
+#define EZXML_ERRL 128        // maximum error string length
+
+typedef struct ezxml_root *ezxml_root_t;
+struct ezxml_root {       // additional data for the root tag
+    struct ezxml xml;     // is a super-struct built on top of ezxml struct
+    ezxml_t cur;          // current xml tree insertion point
+    char *m;              // original xml string
+    size_t len;           // length of allocated memory for mmap, -1 for malloc
+    char *u;              // UTF-8 conversion of string if original was UTF-16
+    char *s;              // start of work area
+    char *e;              // end of work area
+    char **ent;           // general entities (ampersand sequences)
+    char ***attr;         // default attributes
+    char ***pi;           // processing instructions
+    short standalone;     // non-zero if <?xml standalone="yes"?>
+    char err[EZXML_ERRL]; // error string
+};
+
+char *EZXML_NIL[] = { NULL }; // empty, null terminated array of strings
+
+// returns the first child tag with the given name or NULL if not found
+ezxml_t ezxml_child(ezxml_t xml, const char *name)
+{
+    xml = (xml) ? xml->child : NULL;
+    while (xml && strcmp(name, xml->name)) xml = xml->sibling;
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// returns the Nth tag with the same name in the same subsection or NULL if not
+// found
+ezxml_t ezxml_idx(ezxml_t xml, int idx)
+{
+    for (; xml && idx; idx--) xml = xml->next;
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// returns the value of the requested tag attribute or NULL if not found
+const char *ezxml_attr(ezxml_t xml, const char *attr)
+{
+    int i = 0, j = 1;
+    ezxml_root_t root = (ezxml_root_t)xml;
+
+    if (! xml || ! xml->attr) return NULL;
+    while (xml->attr[i] && strcmp(attr, xml->attr[i])) i += 2;
+    if (xml->attr[i]) return xml->attr[i + 1]; // found attribute
+
+    while (root->xml.parent) root = (ezxml_root_t)root->xml.parent; // root tag
+    for (i = 0; root->attr[i] && strcmp(xml->name, root->attr[i][0]); i++);
+    if (! root->attr[i]) return NULL; // no matching default attributes
+    while (root->attr[i][j] && strcmp(attr, root->attr[i][j])) j += 3;
+    return (root->attr[i][j]) ? root->attr[i][j + 1] : NULL; // found default
+}
+
+// same as ezxml_get but takes an already initialized va_list
+ezxml_t ezxml_vget(ezxml_t xml, va_list ap)
+{
+    char *name = va_arg(ap, char *);
+    int idx = -1;
+
+    if (name && *name) {
+        idx = va_arg(ap, int);    
+        xml = ezxml_child(xml, name);
+    }
+    return (idx < 0) ? xml : ezxml_vget(ezxml_idx(xml, idx), ap);
+}
+
+// Traverses the xml tree to retrieve a specific subtag. Takes a variable
+// length list of tag names and indexes. The argument list must be terminated
+// by either an index of -1 or an empty string tag name. Example: 
+// title = ezxml_get(library, "shelf", 0, "book", 2, "title", -1);
+// This retrieves the title of the 3rd book on the 1st shelf of library.
+// Returns NULL if not found.
+ezxml_t ezxml_get(ezxml_t xml, ...)
+{
+    va_list ap;
+    ezxml_t r;
+
+    va_start(ap, xml);
+    r = ezxml_vget(xml, ap);
+    va_end(ap);
+    return r;
+}
+
+// returns a null terminated array of processing instructions for the given
+// target
+const char **ezxml_pi(ezxml_t xml, const char *target)
+{
+    ezxml_root_t root = (ezxml_root_t)xml;
+    int i = 0;
+
+    if (! root) return (const char **)EZXML_NIL;
+    while (root->xml.parent) root = (ezxml_root_t)root->xml.parent; // root tag
+    while (root->pi[i] && strcmp(target, root->pi[i][0])) i++; // find target
+    return (const char **)((root->pi[i]) ? root->pi[i] + 1 : EZXML_NIL);
+}
+
+// set an error string and return root
+ezxml_t ezxml_err(ezxml_root_t root, char *s, const char *err, ...)
+{
+    va_list ap;
+    int line = 1;
+    char *t, fmt[EZXML_ERRL];
+    
+    for (t = root->s; t < s; t++) if (*t == '\n') line++;
+    snprintf(fmt, EZXML_ERRL, "[error near line %d]: %s", line, err);
+
+    va_start(ap, err);
+    vsnprintf(root->err, EZXML_ERRL, fmt, ap);
+    va_end(ap);
+
+    return &root->xml;
+}
+
+// Recursively decodes entity and character references and normalizes new lines
+// ent is a null terminated array of alternating entity names and values. set t
+// to '&' for general entity decoding, '%' for parameter entity decoding, 'c'
+// for cdata sections, ' ' for attribute normalization, or '*' for non-cdata
+// attribute normalization. Returns s, or if the decoded string is longer than
+// s, returns a malloced string that must be freed.
+char *ezxml_decode(char *s, char **ent, char t)
+{
+    char *e, *r = s, *m = s;
+    long b, c, d, l;
+
+    for (; *s; s++) { // normalize line endings
+        while (*s == '\r') {
+            *(s++) = '\n';
+            if (*s == '\n') memmove(s, (s + 1), strlen(s));
+        }
+    }
+    
+    for (s = r; ; ) {
+        while (*s && *s != '&' && (*s != '%' || t != '%') && !isspace(*s)) s++;
+
+        if (! *s) break;
+        else if (t != 'c' && ! strncmp(s, "&#", 2)) { // character reference
+            if (s[2] == 'x') c = strtol(s + 3, &e, 16); // base 16
+            else c = strtol(s + 2, &e, 10); // base 10
+            if (! c || *e != ';') { s++; continue; } // not a character ref
+
+            if (c < 0x80) *(s++) = c; // US-ASCII subset
+            else { // multi-byte UTF-8 sequence
+                for (b = 0, d = c; d; d /= 2) b++; // number of bits in c
+                b = (b - 2) / 5; // number of bytes in payload
+                *(s++) = (0xFF << (7 - b)) | (c >> (6 * b)); // head
+                while (b) *(s++) = 0x80 | ((c >> (6 * --b)) & 0x3F); // payload
+            }
+
+            memmove(s, strchr(s, ';') + 1, strlen(strchr(s, ';')));
+        }
+        else if ((*s == '&' && (t == '&' || t == ' ' || t == '*')) ||
+                 (*s == '%' && t == '%')) { // entity reference
+            for (b = 0; ent[b] && strncmp(s + 1, ent[b], strlen(ent[b]));
+                 b += 2); // find entity in entity list
+
+            if (ent[b++]) { // found a match
+                if ((c = strlen(ent[b])) - 1 > (e = strchr(s, ';')) - s) {
+                    l = (d = (s - r)) + c + strlen(e); // new length
+                    r = (r == m) ? strcpy(malloc(l), r) : realloc(r, l);
+                    e = strchr((s = r + d), ';'); // fix up pointers
+                }
+
+                memmove(s + c, e + 1, strlen(e)); // shift rest of string
+                strncpy(s, ent[b], c); // copy in replacement text
+            }
+            else s++; // not a known entity
+        }
+        else if ((t == ' ' || t == '*') && isspace(*s)) *(s++) = ' ';
+        else s++; // no decoding needed
+    }
+
+    if (t == '*') { // normalize spaces for non-cdata attributes
+        for (s = r; *s; s++) {
+            if ((l = strspn(s, " "))) memmove(s, s + l, strlen(s + l) + 1);
+            while (*s && *s != ' ') s++;
+        }
+        if (--s >= r && *s == ' ') *s = '\0'; // trim any trailing space
+    }
+    return r;
+}
+
+// called when parser finds start of new tag
+void ezxml_open_tag(ezxml_root_t root, char *name, char **attr)
+{
+    ezxml_t xml = root->cur;
+    
+    if (xml->name) xml = ezxml_add_child(xml, name, strlen(xml->txt));
+    else xml->name = name; // first open tag
+
+    xml->attr = attr;
+    root->cur = xml; // update tag insertion point
+}
+
+// called when parser finds character content between open and closing tag
+void ezxml_char_content(ezxml_root_t root, char *s, size_t len, char t)
+{
+    ezxml_t xml = root->cur;
+    char *m = s;
+    size_t l;
+
+    if (! xml || ! xml->name || ! len) return; // sanity check
+
+    s[len] = '\0'; // null terminate text (calling functions anticipate this)
+    len = strlen(s = ezxml_decode(s, root->ent, t)) + 1;
+
+    if (! *(xml->txt)) xml->txt = s; // initial character content
+    else { // allocate our own memory and make a copy
+        xml->txt = (xml->flags & EZXML_TXTM) // allocate some space
+                   ? realloc(xml->txt, (l = strlen(xml->txt)) + len)
+                   : strcpy(malloc((l = strlen(xml->txt)) + len), xml->txt);
+        strcpy(xml->txt + l, s); // add new char content
+        if (s != m) free(s); // free s if it was malloced by ezxml_decode()
+    }
+
+    if (xml->txt != m) ezxml_set_flag(xml, EZXML_TXTM);
+}
+
+// called when parser finds closing tag
+ezxml_t ezxml_close_tag(ezxml_root_t root, char *name, char *s)
+{
+    if (! root->cur || ! root->cur->name || strcmp(name, root->cur->name))
+        return ezxml_err(root, s, "unexpected closing tag </%s>", name);
+
+    root->cur = root->cur->parent;
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+// checks for circular entity references, returns non-zero if no circular
+// references are found, zero otherwise
+int ezxml_ent_ok(char *name, char *s, char **ent)
+{
+    int i;
+
+    for (; ; s++) {
+        while (*s && *s != '&') s++; // find next entity reference
+        if (! *s) return 1;
+        if (! strncmp(s + 1, name, strlen(name))) return 0; // circular ref.
+        for (i = 0; ent[i] && strncmp(ent[i], s + 1, strlen(ent[i])); i += 2);
+        if (ent[i] && ! ezxml_ent_ok(name, ent[i + 1], ent)) return 0;
+    }
+}
+
+// called when the parser finds a processing instruction
+void ezxml_proc_inst(ezxml_root_t root, char *s, size_t len)
+{
+    int i = 0, j = 1;
+    char *target = s;
+
+    s[len] = '\0'; // null terminate instruction
+    if (*(s += strcspn(s, EZXML_WS))) {
+        *s = '\0'; // null terminate target
+        s += strspn(s + 1, EZXML_WS) + 1; // skip whitespace after target
+    }
+
+    if (! strcmp(target, "xml")) { // <?xml ... ?>
+        if ((s = strstr(s, "standalone")) && ! strncmp(s + strspn(s + 10,
+            EZXML_WS "='\"") + 10, "yes", 3)) root->standalone = 1;
+        return;
+    }
+
+    if (! root->pi[0]) *(root->pi = malloc(sizeof(char **))) = NULL; //first pi
+
+    while (root->pi[i] && strcmp(target, root->pi[i][0])) i++; // find target
+    if (! root->pi[i]) { // new target
+        root->pi = realloc(root->pi, sizeof(char **) * (i + 2));
+        root->pi[i] = malloc(sizeof(char *) * 3);
+        root->pi[i][0] = target;
+        root->pi[i][1] = (char *)(root->pi[i + 1] = NULL); // terminate pi list
+        root->pi[i][2] = strdup(""); // empty document position list
+    }
+
+    while (root->pi[i][j]) j++; // find end of instruction list for this target
+    root->pi[i] = realloc(root->pi[i], sizeof(char *) * (j + 3));
+    root->pi[i][j + 2] = realloc(root->pi[i][j + 1], j + 1);
+    strcpy(root->pi[i][j + 2] + j - 1, (root->xml.name) ? ">" : "<");
+    root->pi[i][j + 1] = NULL; // null terminate pi list for this target
+    root->pi[i][j] = s; // set instruction
+}
+
+// called when the parser finds an internal doctype subset
+short ezxml_internal_dtd(ezxml_root_t root, char *s, size_t len)
+{
+    char q, *c, *t, *n = NULL, *v, **ent, **pe;
+    int i, j;
+    
+    pe = memcpy(malloc(sizeof(EZXML_NIL)), EZXML_NIL, sizeof(EZXML_NIL));
+
+    for (s[len] = '\0'; s; ) {
+        while (*s && *s != '<' && *s != '%') s++; // find next declaration
+
+        if (! *s) break;
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "<!ENTITY", 8)) { // parse entity definitions
+            c = s += strspn(s + 8, EZXML_WS) + 8; // skip white space separator
+            n = s + strspn(s, EZXML_WS "%"); // find name
+            *(s = n + strcspn(n, EZXML_WS)) = ';'; // append ; to name
+
+            v = s + strspn(s + 1, EZXML_WS) + 1; // find value
+            if ((q = *(v++)) != '"' && q != '\'') { // skip externals
+                s = strchr(s, '>');
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            for (i = 0, ent = (*c == '%') ? pe : root->ent; ent[i]; i++);
+            ent = realloc(ent, (i + 3) * sizeof(char *)); // space for next ent
+            if (*c == '%') pe = ent;
+            else root->ent = ent;
+
+            *(++s) = '\0'; // null terminate name
+            if ((s = strchr(v, q))) *(s++) = '\0'; // null terminate value
+            ent[i + 1] = ezxml_decode(v, pe, '%'); // set value
+            ent[i + 2] = NULL; // null terminate entity list
+            if (! ezxml_ent_ok(n, ent[i + 1], ent)) { // circular reference
+                if (ent[i + 1] != v) free(ent[i + 1]);
+                ezxml_err(root, v, "circular entity declaration &%s", n);
+                break;
+            }
+            else ent[i] = n; // set entity name
+        }
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "<!ATTLIST", 9)) { // parse default attributes
+            t = s + strspn(s + 9, EZXML_WS) + 9; // skip whitespace separator
+            if (! *t) { ezxml_err(root, t, "unclosed <!ATTLIST"); break; }
+            if (*(s = t + strcspn(t, EZXML_WS ">")) == '>') continue;
+            else *s = '\0'; // null terminate tag name
+            for (i = 0; root->attr[i] && strcmp(n, root->attr[i][0]); i++);
+
+            while (*(n = ++s + strspn(s, EZXML_WS)) && *n != '>') {
+                if (*(s = n + strcspn(n, EZXML_WS))) *s = '\0'; // attr name
+                else { ezxml_err(root, t, "malformed <!ATTLIST"); break; }
+
+                s += strspn(s + 1, EZXML_WS) + 1; // find next token
+                c = (strncmp(s, "CDATA", 5)) ? "*" : " "; // is it cdata?
+                if (! strncmp(s, "NOTATION", 8))
+                    s += strspn(s + 8, EZXML_WS) + 8;
+                s = (*s == '(') ? strchr(s, ')') : s + strcspn(s, EZXML_WS);
+                if (! s) { ezxml_err(root, t, "malformed <!ATTLIST"); break; }
+
+                s += strspn(s, EZXML_WS ")"); // skip white space separator
+                if (! strncmp(s, "#FIXED", 6))
+                    s += strspn(s + 6, EZXML_WS) + 6;
+                if (*s == '#') { // no default value
+                    s += strcspn(s, EZXML_WS ">") - 1;
+                    if (*c == ' ') continue; // cdata is default, nothing to do
+                    v = NULL;
+                }
+                else if ((*s == '"' || *s == '\'')  &&  // default value
+                         (s = strchr(v = s + 1, *s))) *s = '\0';
+                else { ezxml_err(root, t, "malformed <!ATTLIST"); break; }
+
+                if (! root->attr[i]) { // new tag name
+                    root->attr = (! i) ? malloc(2 * sizeof(char **))
+                                       : realloc(root->attr,
+                                                 (i + 2) * sizeof(char **));
+                    root->attr[i] = malloc(2 * sizeof(char *));
+                    root->attr[i][0] = t; // set tag name
+                    root->attr[i][1] = (char *)(root->attr[i + 1] = NULL);
+                }
+
+                for (j = 1; root->attr[i][j]; j += 3); // find end of list
+                root->attr[i] = realloc(root->attr[i],
+                                        (j + 4) * sizeof(char *));
+
+                root->attr[i][j + 3] = NULL; // null terminate list
+                root->attr[i][j + 2] = c; // is it cdata?
+                root->attr[i][j + 1] = (v) ? ezxml_decode(v, root->ent, *c)
+                                           : NULL;
+                root->attr[i][j] = n; // attribute name 
+            }
+        }
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "<!--", 4)) s = strstr(s + 4, "-->"); // comments
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "<?", 2)) { // processing instructions
+            if ((s = strstr(c = s + 2, "?>")))
+                ezxml_proc_inst(root, c, s++ - c);
+        }
+        else if (*s == '<') s = strchr(s, '>'); // skip other declarations
+        else if (*(s++) == '%' && ! root->standalone) break;
+    }
+
+    free(pe);
+    return ! *root->err;
+}
+
+// Converts a UTF-16 string to UTF-8. Returns a new string that must be freed
+// or NULL if no conversion was needed.
+char *ezxml_str2utf8(char **s, size_t *len)
+{
+    char *u;
+    size_t l = 0, sl, max = *len;
+    long c, d;
+    int b, be = (**s == '\xFE') ? 1 : (**s == '\xFF') ? 0 : -1;
+
+    if (be == -1) return NULL; // not UTF-16
+
+    u = malloc(max);
+    for (sl = 2; sl < *len - 1; sl += 2) {
+        c = (be) ? (((*s)[sl] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((*s)[sl + 1] & 0xFF)  //UTF-16BE
+                 : (((*s)[sl + 1] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((*s)[sl] & 0xFF); //UTF-16LE
+        if (c >= 0xD800 && c <= 0xDFFF && (sl += 2) < *len - 1) { // high-half
+            d = (be) ? (((*s)[sl] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((*s)[sl + 1] & 0xFF)
+                     : (((*s)[sl + 1] & 0xFF) << 8) | ((*s)[sl] & 0xFF);
+            c = (((c & 0x3FF) << 10) | (d & 0x3FF)) + 0x10000;
+        }
+
+        while (l + 6 > max) u = realloc(u, max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+        if (c < 0x80) u[l++] = c; // US-ASCII subset
+        else { // multi-byte UTF-8 sequence
+            for (b = 0, d = c; d; d /= 2) b++; // bits in c
+            b = (b - 2) / 5; // bytes in payload
+            u[l++] = (0xFF << (7 - b)) | (c >> (6 * b)); // head
+            while (b) u[l++] = 0x80 | ((c >> (6 * --b)) & 0x3F); // payload
+        }
+    }
+    return *s = realloc(u, *len = l);
+}
+
+// frees a tag attribute list
+void ezxml_free_attr(char **attr) {
+    int i = 0;
+    char *m;
+    
+    if (! attr || attr == EZXML_NIL) return; // nothing to free
+    while (attr[i]) i += 2; // find end of attribute list
+    m = attr[i + 1]; // list of which names and values are malloced
+    for (i = 0; m[i]; i++) {
+        if (m[i] & EZXML_NAMEM) free(attr[i * 2]);
+        if (m[i] & EZXML_TXTM) free(attr[(i * 2) + 1]);
+    }
+    free(m);
+    free(attr);
+}
+
+// parse the given xml string and return an ezxml structure
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_str(char *s, size_t len)
+{
+    ezxml_root_t root = (ezxml_root_t)ezxml_new(NULL);
+    char q, e, *d, **attr, **a = NULL; // initialize a to avoid compile warning
+    int l, i, j;
+
+    root->m = s;
+    if (! len) return ezxml_err(root, NULL, "root tag missing");
+    root->u = ezxml_str2utf8(&s, &len); // convert utf-16 to utf-8
+    root->e = (root->s = s) + len; // record start and end of work area
+    
+    e = s[len - 1]; // save end char
+    s[len - 1] = '\0'; // turn end char into null terminator
+
+    while (*s && *s != '<') s++; // find first tag
+    if (! *s) return ezxml_err(root, s, "root tag missing");
+
+    for (; ; ) {
+        attr = (char **)EZXML_NIL;
+        d = ++s;
+        
+        if (isalpha(*s) || *s == '_' || *s == ':' || *s < '\0') { // new tag
+            if (! root->cur)
+                return ezxml_err(root, d, "markup outside of root element");
+
+            s += strcspn(s, EZXML_WS "/>");
+            while (isspace(*s)) *(s++) = '\0'; // null terminate tag name
+  
+            if (*s && *s != '/' && *s != '>') // find tag in default attr list
+                for (i = 0; (a = root->attr[i]) && strcmp(a[0], d); i++);
+
+            for (l = 0; *s && *s != '/' && *s != '>'; l += 2) { // new attrib
+                attr = (l) ? realloc(attr, (l + 4) * sizeof(char *))
+                           : malloc(4 * sizeof(char *)); // allocate space
+                attr[l + 3] = (l) ? realloc(attr[l + 1], (l / 2) + 2)
+                                  : malloc(2); // mem for list of maloced vals
+                strcpy(attr[l + 3] + (l / 2), " "); // value is not malloced
+                attr[l + 2] = NULL; // null terminate list
+                attr[l + 1] = ""; // temporary attribute value
+                attr[l] = s; // set attribute name
+
+                s += strcspn(s, EZXML_WS "=/>");
+                if (*s == '=' || isspace(*s)) { 
+                    *(s++) = '\0'; // null terminate tag attribute name
+                    q = *(s += strspn(s, EZXML_WS "="));
+                    if (q == '"' || q == '\'') { // attribute value
+                        attr[l + 1] = ++s;
+                        while (*s && *s != q) s++;
+                        if (*s) *(s++) = '\0'; // null terminate attribute val
+                        else {
+                            ezxml_free_attr(attr);
+                            return ezxml_err(root, d, "missing %c", q);
+                        }
+
+                        for (j = 1; a && a[j] && strcmp(a[j], attr[l]); j +=3);
+                        attr[l + 1] = ezxml_decode(attr[l + 1], root->ent, (a
+                                                   && a[j]) ? *a[j + 2] : ' ');
+                        if (attr[l + 1] < d || attr[l + 1] > s)
+                            attr[l + 3][l / 2] = EZXML_TXTM; // value malloced
+                    }
+                }
+                while (isspace(*s)) s++;
+            }
+
+            if (*s == '/') { // self closing tag
+                *(s++) = '\0';
+                if ((*s && *s != '>') || (! *s && e != '>')) {
+                    if (l) ezxml_free_attr(attr);
+                    return ezxml_err(root, d, "missing >");
+                }
+                ezxml_open_tag(root, d, attr);
+                ezxml_close_tag(root, d, s);
+            }
+            else if ((q = *s) == '>' || (! *s && e == '>')) { // open tag
+                *s = '\0'; // temporarily null terminate tag name
+                ezxml_open_tag(root, d, attr);
+                *s = q;
+            }
+            else {
+                if (l) ezxml_free_attr(attr);
+                return ezxml_err(root, d, "missing >"); 
+            }
+        }
+        else if (*s == '/') { // close tag
+            s += strcspn(d = s + 1, EZXML_WS ">") + 1;
+            if (! (q = *s) && e != '>') return ezxml_err(root, d, "missing >");
+            *s = '\0'; // temporarily null terminate tag name
+            if (ezxml_close_tag(root, d, s)) return &root->xml;
+            if (isspace(*s = q)) s += strspn(s, EZXML_WS);
+        }
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "!--", 3)) { // xml comment
+            if (! (s = strstr(s + 3, "--")) || (*(s += 2) != '>' && *s) ||
+                (! *s && e != '>')) return ezxml_err(root, d, "unclosed <!--");
+        }
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "![CDATA[", 8)) { // cdata
+            if ((s = strstr(s, "]]>")))
+                ezxml_char_content(root, d + 8, (s += 2) - d - 10, 'c');
+            else return ezxml_err(root, d, "unclosed <![CDATA[");
+        }
+        else if (! strncmp(s, "!DOCTYPE", 8)) { // dtd
+            for (l = 0; *s && ((! l && *s != '>') || (l && (*s != ']' || 
+                 *(s + strspn(s + 1, EZXML_WS) + 1) != '>')));
+                 l = (*s == '[') ? 1 : l) s += strcspn(s + 1, "[]>") + 1;
+            if (! *s && e != '>')
+                return ezxml_err(root, d, "unclosed <!DOCTYPE");
+            d = (l) ? strchr(d, '[') + 1 : d;
+            if (l && ! ezxml_internal_dtd(root, d, s++ - d)) return &root->xml;
+        }
+        else if (*s == '?') { // <?...?> processing instructions
+            do { s = strchr(s, '?'); } while (s && *(++s) && *s != '>');
+            if (! s || (! *s && e != '>')) 
+                return ezxml_err(root, d, "unclosed <?");
+            else ezxml_proc_inst(root, d + 1, s - d - 2);
+        }
+        else return ezxml_err(root, d, "unexpected <");
+        
+        if (! s || ! *s) break;
+        *s = '\0';
+        d = ++s;
+        if (*s && *s != '<') { // tag character content
+            while (*s && *s != '<') s++;
+            if (*s) ezxml_char_content(root, d, s - d, '&');
+            else break;
+        }
+        else if (! *s) break;
+    }
+
+    if (! root->cur) return &root->xml;
+    else if (! root->cur->name) return ezxml_err(root, d, "root tag missing");
+    else return ezxml_err(root, d, "unclosed tag <%s>", root->cur->name);
+}
+
+// Wrapper for ezxml_parse_str() that accepts a file stream. Reads the entire
+// stream into memory and then parses it. For xml files, use ezxml_parse_file()
+// or ezxml_parse_fd()
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_fp(FILE *fp)
+{
+    ezxml_root_t root;
+    size_t l, len = 0;
+    char *s;
+
+    if (! (s = malloc(EZXML_BUFSIZE))) return NULL;
+    do {
+        len += (l = fread((s + len), 1, EZXML_BUFSIZE, fp));
+        if (l == EZXML_BUFSIZE) s = realloc(s, len + EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+    } while (s && l == EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+
+    if (! s) return NULL;
+    root = (ezxml_root_t)ezxml_parse_str(s, len);
+    root->len = -1; // so we know to free s in ezxml_free()
+    return &root->xml;
+}
+
+// A wrapper for ezxml_parse_str() that accepts a file descriptor. First
+// attempts to mem map the file. Failing that, reads the file into memory.
+// Returns NULL on failure.
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_fd(int fd)
+{
+    ezxml_root_t root;
+    struct stat st;
+    size_t l;
+    void *m;
+
+    if (fd < 0) return NULL;
+    fstat(fd, &st);
+
+#ifndef EZXML_NOMMAP
+    l = (st.st_size + sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) - 1) & ~(sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) -1);
+    if ((m = mmap(NULL, l, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0)) !=
+        MAP_FAILED) {
+        madvise(m, l, MADV_SEQUENTIAL); // optimize for sequential access
+        root = (ezxml_root_t)ezxml_parse_str(m, st.st_size);
+        madvise(m, root->len = l, MADV_NORMAL); // put it back to normal
+    }
+    else { // mmap failed, read file into memory
+#endif // EZXML_NOMMAP
+        l = read(fd, m = malloc(st.st_size), st.st_size);
+        root = (ezxml_root_t)ezxml_parse_str(m, l);
+        root->len = -1; // so we know to free s in ezxml_free()
+#ifndef EZXML_NOMMAP
+    }
+#endif // EZXML_NOMMAP
+    return &root->xml;
+}
+
+// a wrapper for ezxml_parse_fd that accepts a file name
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_file(const char *file)
+{
+    int fd = open(file, O_RDONLY, 0);
+    ezxml_t xml = ezxml_parse_fd(fd);
+    
+    if (fd >= 0) close(fd);
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// Encodes ampersand sequences appending the results to *dst, reallocating *dst
+// if length excedes max. a is non-zero for attribute encoding. Returns *dst
+char *ezxml_ampencode(const char *s, size_t len, char **dst, size_t *dlen,
+                      size_t *max, short a)
+{
+    const char *e;
+    
+    for (e = s + len; s != e; s++) {
+        while (*dlen + 10 > *max) *dst = realloc(*dst, *max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+
+        switch (*s) {
+        case '\0': return *dst;
+        case '&': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, "&amp;"); break;
+        case '<': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, "&lt;"); break;
+        case '>': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, "&gt;"); break;
+        case '"': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, (a) ? "&quot;" : "\""); break;
+        case '\n': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, (a) ? "&#xA;" : "\n"); break;
+        case '\t': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, (a) ? "&#x9;" : "\t"); break;
+        case '\r': *dlen += sprintf(*dst + *dlen, "&#xD;"); break;
+        default: (*dst)[(*dlen)++] = *s;
+        }
+    }
+    return *dst;
+}
+
+// Recursively converts each tag to xml appending it to *s. Reallocates *s if
+// its length excedes max. start is the location of the previous tag in the
+// parent tag's character content. Returns *s.
+char *ezxml_toxml_r(ezxml_t xml, char **s, size_t *len, size_t *max,
+                    size_t start, char ***attr)
+{
+    int i, j;
+    char *txt = (xml->parent) ? xml->parent->txt : "";
+    size_t off = 0;
+
+    // parent character content up to this tag
+    *s = ezxml_ampencode(txt + start, xml->off - start, s, len, max, 0);
+
+    while (*len + strlen(xml->name) + 4 > *max) // reallocate s
+        *s = realloc(*s, *max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+
+    *len += sprintf(*s + *len, "<%s", xml->name); // open tag
+    for (i = 0; xml->attr[i]; i += 2) { // tag attributes
+        if (ezxml_attr(xml, xml->attr[i]) != xml->attr[i + 1]) continue;
+        while (*len + strlen(xml->attr[i]) + 7 > *max) // reallocate s
+            *s = realloc(*s, *max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+
+        *len += sprintf(*s + *len, " %s=\"", xml->attr[i]);
+        ezxml_ampencode(xml->attr[i + 1], -1, s, len, max, 1);
+        *len += sprintf(*s + *len, "\"");
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; attr[i] && strcmp(attr[i][0], xml->name); i++);
+    for (j = 1; attr[i] && attr[i][j]; j += 3) { // default attributes
+        if (! attr[i][j + 1] || ezxml_attr(xml, attr[i][j]) != attr[i][j + 1])
+            continue; // skip duplicates and non-values
+        while (*len + strlen(attr[i][j]) + 7 > *max) // reallocate s
+            *s = realloc(*s, *max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+
+        *len += sprintf(*s + *len, " %s=\"", attr[i][j]);
+        ezxml_ampencode(attr[i][j + 1], -1, s, len, max, 1);
+        *len += sprintf(*s + *len, "\"");
+    }
+    *len += sprintf(*s + *len, ">");
+
+    *s = (xml->child) ? ezxml_toxml_r(xml->child, s, len, max, 0, attr) //child
+                      : ezxml_ampencode(xml->txt, -1, s, len, max, 0);  //data
+    
+    while (*len + strlen(xml->name) + 4 > *max) // reallocate s
+        *s = realloc(*s, *max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+
+    *len += sprintf(*s + *len, "</%s>", xml->name); // close tag
+
+    while (txt[off] && off < xml->off) off++; // make sure off is within bounds
+    return (xml->ordered) ? ezxml_toxml_r(xml->ordered, s, len, max, off, attr)
+                          : ezxml_ampencode(txt + off, -1, s, len, max, 0);
+}
+
+// Converts an ezxml structure back to xml. Returns a string of xml data that
+// must be freed.
+char *ezxml_toxml(ezxml_t xml)
+{
+    ezxml_t p = (xml) ? xml->parent : NULL, o = (xml) ? xml->ordered : NULL;
+    ezxml_root_t root = (ezxml_root_t)xml;
+    size_t len = 0, max = EZXML_BUFSIZE;
+    char *s = strcpy(malloc(max), ""), *t, *n;
+    int i, j, k;
+
+    if (! xml || ! xml->name) return realloc(s, len + 1);
+    while (root->xml.parent) root = (ezxml_root_t)root->xml.parent; // root tag
+
+    for (i = 0; ! p && root->pi[i]; i++) { // pre-root processing instructions
+        for (k = 2; root->pi[i][k - 1]; k++);
+        for (j = 1; (n = root->pi[i][j]); j++) {
+            if (root->pi[i][k][j - 1] == '>') continue; // not pre-root
+            while (len + strlen(t = root->pi[i][0]) + strlen(n) + 7 > max)
+                s = realloc(s, max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+            len += sprintf(s + len, "<?%s%s%s?>\n", t, *n ? " " : "", n);
+        }
+    }
+
+    xml->parent = xml->ordered = NULL;
+    s = ezxml_toxml_r(xml, &s, &len, &max, 0, root->attr);
+    xml->parent = p;
+    xml->ordered = o;
+
+    for (i = 0; ! p && root->pi[i]; i++) { // post-root processing instructions
+        for (k = 2; root->pi[i][k - 1]; k++);
+        for (j = 1; (n = root->pi[i][j]); j++) {
+            if (root->pi[i][k][j - 1] == '<') continue; // not post-root
+            while (len + strlen(t = root->pi[i][0]) + strlen(n) + 7 > max)
+                s = realloc(s, max += EZXML_BUFSIZE);
+            len += sprintf(s + len, "\n<?%s%s%s?>", t, *n ? " " : "", n);
+        }
+    }
+    return realloc(s, len + 1);
+}
+
+// free the memory allocated for the ezxml structure
+void ezxml_free(ezxml_t xml)
+{
+    ezxml_root_t root = (ezxml_root_t)xml;
+    int i, j;
+    char **a, *s;
+
+    if (! xml) return;
+    ezxml_free(xml->child);
+    ezxml_free(xml->ordered);
+
+    if (! xml->parent) { // free root tag allocations
+        for (i = 10; root->ent[i]; i += 2) // 0 - 9 are default entites (<>&"')
+            if ((s = root->ent[i + 1]) < root->s || s > root->e) free(s);
+        free(root->ent); // free list of general entities
+
+        for (i = 0; (a = root->attr[i]); i++) {
+            for (j = 1; a[j++]; j += 2) // free malloced attribute values
+                if (a[j] && (a[j] < root->s || a[j] > root->e)) free(a[j]);
+            free(a);
+        }
+        if (root->attr[0]) free(root->attr); // free default attribute list
+
+        for (i = 0; root->pi[i]; i++) {
+            for (j = 1; root->pi[i][j]; j++);
+            free(root->pi[i][j + 1]);
+            free(root->pi[i]);
+        }            
+        if (root->pi[0]) free(root->pi); // free processing instructions
+
+        if (root->len == -1) free(root->m); // malloced xml data
+#ifndef EZXML_NOMMAP
+        else if (root->len) munmap(root->m, root->len); // mem mapped xml data
+#endif // EZXML_NOMMAP
+        if (root->u) free(root->u); // utf8 conversion
+    }
+
+    ezxml_free_attr(xml->attr); // tag attributes
+    if ((xml->flags & EZXML_TXTM)) free(xml->txt); // character content
+    if ((xml->flags & EZXML_NAMEM)) free(xml->name); // tag name
+    free(xml);
+}
+
+// return parser error message or empty string if none
+const char *ezxml_error(ezxml_t xml)
+{
+    while (xml && xml->parent) xml = xml->parent; // find root tag
+    return (xml) ? ((ezxml_root_t)xml)->err : "";
+}
+
+// returns a new empty ezxml structure with the given root tag name
+ezxml_t ezxml_new(const char *name)
+{
+    static char *ent[] = { "lt;", "&#60;", "gt;", "&#62;", "quot;", "&#34;",
+                           "apos;", "&#39;", "amp;", "&#38;", NULL };
+    ezxml_root_t root = (ezxml_root_t)memset(malloc(sizeof(struct ezxml_root)), 
+                                             '\0', sizeof(struct ezxml_root));
+    root->xml.name = (char *)name;
+    root->cur = &root->xml;
+    strcpy(root->err, root->xml.txt = "");
+    root->ent = memcpy(malloc(sizeof(ent)), ent, sizeof(ent));
+    root->attr = root->pi = (char ***)(root->xml.attr = EZXML_NIL);
+    return &root->xml;
+}
+
+// inserts an existing tag into an ezxml structure
+ezxml_t ezxml_insert(ezxml_t xml, ezxml_t dest, size_t off)
+{
+    ezxml_t cur, prev, head;
+
+    xml->next = xml->sibling = xml->ordered = NULL;
+    xml->off = off;
+    xml->parent = dest;
+
+    if ((head = dest->child)) { // already have sub tags
+        if (head->off <= off) { // not first subtag
+            for (cur = head; cur->ordered && cur->ordered->off <= off;
+                 cur = cur->ordered);
+            xml->ordered = cur->ordered;
+            cur->ordered = xml;
+        }
+        else { // first subtag
+            xml->ordered = head;
+            dest->child = xml;
+        }
+
+        for (cur = head, prev = NULL; cur && strcmp(cur->name, xml->name);
+             prev = cur, cur = cur->sibling); // find tag type
+        if (cur && cur->off <= off) { // not first of type
+            while (cur->next && cur->next->off <= off) cur = cur->next;
+            xml->next = cur->next;
+            cur->next = xml;
+        }
+        else { // first tag of this type
+            if (prev && cur) prev->sibling = cur->sibling; // remove old first
+            xml->next = cur; // old first tag is now next
+            for (cur = head, prev = NULL; cur && cur->off <= off;
+                 prev = cur, cur = cur->sibling); // new sibling insert point
+            xml->sibling = cur;
+            if (prev) prev->sibling = xml;
+        }
+    }
+    else dest->child = xml; // only sub tag
+
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// Adds a child tag. off is the offset of the child tag relative to the start
+// of the parent tag's character content. Returns the child tag.
+ezxml_t ezxml_add_child(ezxml_t xml, const char *name, size_t off)
+{
+    ezxml_t child;
+
+    if (! xml) return NULL;
+    child = (ezxml_t)memset(malloc(sizeof(struct ezxml)), '\0',
+                            sizeof(struct ezxml));
+    child->name = (char *)name;
+    child->attr = EZXML_NIL;
+    child->txt = "";
+
+    return ezxml_insert(child, xml, off);
+}
+
+// sets the character content for the given tag and returns the tag
+ezxml_t ezxml_set_txt(ezxml_t xml, const char *txt)
+{
+    if (! xml) return NULL;
+    if (xml->flags & EZXML_TXTM) free(xml->txt); // existing txt was malloced
+    xml->flags &= ~EZXML_TXTM;
+    xml->txt = (char *)txt;
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// Sets the given tag attribute or adds a new attribute if not found. A value
+// of NULL will remove the specified attribute. Returns the tag given.
+ezxml_t ezxml_set_attr(ezxml_t xml, const char *name, const char *value)
+{
+    int l = 0, c;
+
+    if (! xml) return NULL;
+    while (xml->attr[l] && strcmp(xml->attr[l], name)) l += 2;
+    if (! xml->attr[l]) { // not found, add as new attribute
+        if (! value) return xml; // nothing to do
+        if (xml->attr == EZXML_NIL) { // first attribute
+            xml->attr = malloc(4 * sizeof(char *));
+            xml->attr[1] = strdup(""); // empty list of malloced names/vals
+        }
+        else xml->attr = realloc(xml->attr, (l + 4) * sizeof(char *));
+
+        xml->attr[l] = (char *)name; // set attribute name
+        xml->attr[l + 2] = NULL; // null terminate attribute list
+        xml->attr[l + 3] = realloc(xml->attr[l + 1],
+                                   (c = strlen(xml->attr[l + 1])) + 2);
+        strcpy(xml->attr[l + 3] + c, " "); // set name/value as not malloced
+        if (xml->flags & EZXML_DUP) xml->attr[l + 3][c] = EZXML_NAMEM;
+    }
+    else if (xml->flags & EZXML_DUP) free((char *)name); // name was strduped
+
+    for (c = l; xml->attr[c]; c += 2); // find end of attribute list
+    if (xml->attr[c + 1][l / 2] & EZXML_TXTM) free(xml->attr[l + 1]); //old val
+    if (xml->flags & EZXML_DUP) xml->attr[c + 1][l / 2] |= EZXML_TXTM;
+    else xml->attr[c + 1][l / 2] &= ~EZXML_TXTM;
+
+    if (value) xml->attr[l + 1] = (char *)value; // set attribute value
+    else { // remove attribute
+        if (xml->attr[c + 1][l / 2] & EZXML_NAMEM) free(xml->attr[l]);
+        memmove(xml->attr + l, xml->attr + l + 2, (c - l + 2) * sizeof(char*));
+        xml->attr = realloc(xml->attr, (c + 2) * sizeof(char *));
+        memmove(xml->attr[c + 1] + (l / 2), xml->attr[c + 1] + (l / 2) + 1,
+                (c / 2) - (l / 2)); // fix list of which name/vals are malloced
+    }
+    xml->flags &= ~EZXML_DUP; // clear strdup() flag
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// sets a flag for the given tag and returns the tag
+ezxml_t ezxml_set_flag(ezxml_t xml, short flag)
+{
+    if (xml) xml->flags |= flag;
+    return xml;
+}
+
+// removes a tag along with its subtags without freeing its memory
+ezxml_t ezxml_cut(ezxml_t xml)
+{
+    ezxml_t cur;
+
+    if (! xml) return NULL; // nothing to do
+    if (xml->next) xml->next->sibling = xml->sibling; // patch sibling list
+
+    if (xml->parent) { // not root tag
+        cur = xml->parent->child; // find head of subtag list
+        if (cur == xml) xml->parent->child = xml->ordered; // first subtag
+        else { // not first subtag
+            while (cur->ordered != xml) cur = cur->ordered;
+            cur->ordered = cur->ordered->ordered; // patch ordered list
+
+            cur = xml->parent->child; // go back to head of subtag list
+            if (strcmp(cur->name, xml->name)) { // not in first sibling list
+                while (strcmp(cur->sibling->name, xml->name))
+                    cur = cur->sibling;
+                if (cur->sibling == xml) { // first of a sibling list
+                    cur->sibling = (xml->next) ? xml->next
+                                               : cur->sibling->sibling;
+                }
+                else cur = cur->sibling; // not first of a sibling list
+            }
+
+            while (cur->next && cur->next != xml) cur = cur->next;
+            if (cur->next) cur->next = cur->next->next; // patch next list
+        }        
+    }
+    xml->ordered = xml->sibling = xml->next = NULL;
+    return xml;
+}
+
+#ifdef EZXML_TEST // test harness
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    ezxml_t xml;
+    char *s;
+    int i;
+
+    if (argc != 2) return fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s xmlfile\n", argv[0]);
+
+    xml = ezxml_parse_file(argv[1]);
+    printf("%s\n", (s = ezxml_toxml(xml)));
+    free(s);
+    i = fprintf(stderr, "%s", ezxml_error(xml));
+    ezxml_free(xml);
+    return (i) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+#endif // EZXML_TEST
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.h b/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e02078
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.h
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+/* ezxml.h
+ *
+ * Copyright 2004-2006 Aaron Voisine <aaron@voisine.org>
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+ * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+ * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+ * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+ * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+ * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+ * the following conditions:
+ *
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
+ * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ *
+ * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+ * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+ * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+ * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+ * CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+ * TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+ * SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _EZXML_H
+#define _EZXML_H
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+#define EZXML_BUFSIZE 1024 // size of internal memory buffers
+#define EZXML_NAMEM   0x80 // name is malloced
+#define EZXML_TXTM    0x40 // txt is malloced
+#define EZXML_DUP     0x20 // attribute name and value are strduped
+
+typedef struct ezxml *ezxml_t;
+struct ezxml {
+    char *name;      // tag name
+    char **attr;     // tag attributes { name, value, name, value, ... NULL }
+    char *txt;       // tag character content, empty string if none
+    size_t off;      // tag offset from start of parent tag character content
+    ezxml_t next;    // next tag with same name in this section at this depth
+    ezxml_t sibling; // next tag with different name in same section and depth
+    ezxml_t ordered; // next tag, same section and depth, in original order
+    ezxml_t child;   // head of sub tag list, NULL if none
+    ezxml_t parent;  // parent tag, NULL if current tag is root tag
+    short flags;     // additional information
+};
+
+// Given a string of xml data and its length, parses it and creates an ezxml
+// structure. For efficiency, modifies the data by adding null terminators
+// and decoding ampersand sequences. If you don't want this, copy the data and
+// pass in the copy. Returns NULL on failure.
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_str(char *s, size_t len);
+
+// A wrapper for ezxml_parse_str() that accepts a file descriptor. First
+// attempts to mem map the file. Failing that, reads the file into memory.
+// Returns NULL on failure.
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_fd(int fd);
+
+// a wrapper for ezxml_parse_fd() that accepts a file name
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_file(const char *file);
+    
+// Wrapper for ezxml_parse_str() that accepts a file stream. Reads the entire
+// stream into memory and then parses it. For xml files, use ezxml_parse_file()
+// or ezxml_parse_fd()
+ezxml_t ezxml_parse_fp(FILE *fp);
+
+// returns the first child tag (one level deeper) with the given name or NULL
+// if not found
+ezxml_t ezxml_child(ezxml_t xml, const char *name);
+
+// returns the next tag of the same name in the same section and depth or NULL
+// if not found
+#define ezxml_next(xml) ((xml) ? xml->next : NULL)
+
+// Returns the Nth tag with the same name in the same section at the same depth
+// or NULL if not found. An index of 0 returns the tag given.
+ezxml_t ezxml_idx(ezxml_t xml, int idx);
+
+// returns the name of the given tag
+#define ezxml_name(xml) ((xml) ? xml->name : NULL)
+
+// returns the given tag's character content or empty string if none
+#define ezxml_txt(xml) ((xml) ? xml->txt : "")
+
+// returns the value of the requested tag attribute, or NULL if not found
+const char *ezxml_attr(ezxml_t xml, const char *attr);
+
+// Traverses the ezxml sturcture to retrieve a specific subtag. Takes a
+// variable length list of tag names and indexes. The argument list must be
+// terminated by either an index of -1 or an empty string tag name. Example: 
+// title = ezxml_get(library, "shelf", 0, "book", 2, "title", -1);
+// This retrieves the title of the 3rd book on the 1st shelf of library.
+// Returns NULL if not found.
+ezxml_t ezxml_get(ezxml_t xml, ...);
+
+// Converts an ezxml structure back to xml. Returns a string of xml data that
+// must be freed.
+char *ezxml_toxml(ezxml_t xml);
+
+// returns a NULL terminated array of processing instructions for the given
+// target
+const char **ezxml_pi(ezxml_t xml, const char *target);
+
+// frees the memory allocated for an ezxml structure
+void ezxml_free(ezxml_t xml);
+    
+// returns parser error message or empty string if none
+const char *ezxml_error(ezxml_t xml);
+
+// returns a new empty ezxml structure with the given root tag name
+ezxml_t ezxml_new(const char *name);
+
+// wrapper for ezxml_new() that strdup()s name
+#define ezxml_new_d(name) ezxml_set_flag(ezxml_new(strdup(name)), EZXML_NAMEM)
+
+// Adds a child tag. off is the offset of the child tag relative to the start
+// of the parent tag's character content. Returns the child tag.
+ezxml_t ezxml_add_child(ezxml_t xml, const char *name, size_t off);
+
+// wrapper for ezxml_add_child() that strdup()s name
+#define ezxml_add_child_d(xml, name, off) \
+    ezxml_set_flag(ezxml_add_child(xml, strdup(name), off), EZXML_NAMEM)
+
+// sets the character content for the given tag and returns the tag
+ezxml_t ezxml_set_txt(ezxml_t xml, const char *txt);
+
+// wrapper for ezxml_set_txt() that strdup()s txt
+#define ezxml_set_txt_d(xml, txt) \
+    ezxml_set_flag(ezxml_set_txt(xml, strdup(txt)), EZXML_TXTM)
+
+// Sets the given tag attribute or adds a new attribute if not found. A value
+// of NULL will remove the specified attribute. Returns the tag given.
+ezxml_t ezxml_set_attr(ezxml_t xml, const char *name, const char *value);
+
+// Wrapper for ezxml_set_attr() that strdup()s name/value. Value cannot be NULL
+#define ezxml_set_attr_d(xml, name, value) \
+    ezxml_set_attr(ezxml_set_flag(xml, EZXML_DUP), strdup(name), strdup(value))
+
+// sets a flag for the given tag and returns the tag
+ezxml_t ezxml_set_flag(ezxml_t xml, short flag);
+
+// removes a tag along with its subtags without freeing its memory
+ezxml_t ezxml_cut(ezxml_t xml);
+
+// inserts an existing tag into an ezxml structure
+ezxml_t ezxml_insert(ezxml_t xml, ezxml_t dest, size_t off);
+
+// Moves an existing tag to become a subtag of dest at the given offset from
+// the start of dest's character content. Returns the moved tag.
+#define ezxml_move(xml, dest, off) ezxml_insert(ezxml_cut(xml), dest, off)
+
+// removes a tag along with all its subtags
+#define ezxml_remove(xml) ezxml_free(ezxml_cut(xml))
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif // _EZXML_H
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.txt b/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1dcd5ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/guest_creator/ezxml.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+ezXML - XML Parsing C Library
+version 0.8.5
+
+ezXML is a C library for parsing XML documents inspired by simpleXML for PHP.
+As the name implies, it's easy to use. It's ideal for parsing XML configuration
+files or REST web service responses. It's also fast and lightweight (less than
+20k compiled). The latest verions is available here:
+http://prdownloads.sf.net/ezxml/ezxml-0.8.6.tar.gz?download
+
+Example Usage
+
+Given the following example XML document:
+
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<formula1>
+  <team name="McLaren">
+    <driver>
+      <name>Kimi Raikkonen</name>
+      <points>112</points>
+    </driver>
+    <driver>
+      <name>Juan Pablo Montoya</name>
+      <points>60</points>
+    </driver>
+  </team>
+</formula1>
+
+This code snippet prints out a list of drivers, which team they drive for,
+and how many championship points they have:
+
+ezxml_t f1 = ezxml_parse_file("formula1.xml"), team, driver;
+const char *teamname;
+
+for (team = ezxml_child(f1, "team"); team; team = team->next) {
+    teamname = ezxml_attr(team, "name");
+    for (driver = ezxml_child(team, "driver"); driver; driver = driver->next) {
+        printf("%s, %s: %s\n", ezxml_child(driver, "name")->txt, teamname,
+               ezxml_child(driver, "points")->txt);
+    }
+}
+ezxml_free(f1);
+
+Alternately, the following would print out the name of the second driver on the
+first team:
+
+ezxml_t f1 = ezxml_parse_file("formula1.xml");
+
+printf("%s\n", ezxml_get(f1, "team", 0, "driver", 1, "name", -1)->txt);
+ezxml_free(f1);
+
+The -1 indicates the end of the argument list. That's pretty much all
+there is to it. Complete API documentation can be found in ezxml.h.
+
+Known Limitations
+
+- ezXML is not a validating parser
+
+- Loads the entire XML document into memory at once and does not allow for
+  documents to be passed in a chunk at a time. Large XML files can still be
+  handled though through ezxml_parse_file() and ezxml_parse_fd(), which use mmap
+  to map the file to a virtual address space and rely on the virtual memory
+  system to page in data as needed.
+
+- Does not currently recognize all possible well-formedness errors. It should
+  correctly handle all well-formed XML documents and will either ignore or halt
+  XML processing on well-formedness errors. More well-formedness checking will
+  be added in subsiquent releases.
+
+- In making the character content of tags easy to access, there is no way
+  provided to keep track of the location of sub tags relative to the character
+  data. Example:
+
+  <doc>line one<br/>
+  line two</doc>
+
+  The character content of the doc tag is reported as "line one\nline two", and
+  <br/> is reported as a sub tag, but the location of <br/> within the
+  character data is not. The function ezxml_toxml() will convert an ezXML
+  structure back to XML with sub tag locations intact.
+
+Licensing
+
+ezXML was written by Aaron Voisine <aaron@voisine.org> and is distributed under
+the terms of the MIT license, described in license.txt.
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/main.c b/utils/guest_creator/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2316ea9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/guest_creator/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+#include "ezxml.h"
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#define MAX_FILES 256
+
+struct file_info {
+    int size;
+    char id[256];
+    char * data;
+    unsigned long long * offset_ptr;
+};
+
+int num_files = 0;
+struct file_info files[MAX_FILES];
+
+
+int parse_config_input(ezxml_t cfg_input);
+int write_output(char * filename, ezxml_t cfg_output);
+
+void usage() {
+    printf("Usage: builder <infile> [-o outfile]\n");
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
+    int c;
+    char * outfile = NULL;
+    char * infile = NULL;
+
+    memset((char *)files, 0, sizeof(files));
+
+    opterr = 0;
+
+    while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "ho:")) != -1) {
+	switch (c) {
+	    case 'o':
+		outfile = optarg;
+		break;
+	    case 'h':
+		usage();
+		return 1;
+	    default:
+		abort();
+	}
+    }
+
+    if (optind >= argc) {
+	usage();
+	return 1;
+    }
+
+    infile = argv[optind];
+
+
+    printf("Reading Input file: %s\n", infile);
+
+    ezxml_t cfg_input = ezxml_parse_file(infile);
+
+    if (cfg_input == NULL) {
+	printf("Could not open configuration input file: %s\n", infile);
+	return 1;
+    }
+
+
+    // parse input
+    if (parse_config_input(cfg_input) == -1) {
+	printf("Error parsing configuration input\n");
+	return 1;
+    }
+
+
+
+
+    // write output
+
+    if (outfile == NULL) {
+	char * endptr = rindex(infile, '.');
+
+	outfile = malloc(strlen(infile) + strlen(".dat") + 1);
+
+	if (endptr) {
+	    *endptr = '\0';
+	}
+
+	sprintf(outfile, "%s.dat", infile);
+    }
+
+
+    write_output(outfile, cfg_input);
+
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+char * get_val(ezxml_t cfg, char * tag) {
+    char * attrib = (char *)ezxml_attr(cfg, tag);
+    ezxml_t txt = ezxml_child(cfg, tag);
+
+    if ((txt != NULL) && (attrib != NULL)) {
+	printf("Invalid Cfg file: Duplicate value for %s (attr=%s, txt=%s)\n", 
+	       tag, attrib, ezxml_txt(txt));
+	exit(-1);
+    }
+
+    return (attrib == NULL) ? ezxml_txt(txt) : attrib;
+}
+
+
+int write_output(char * filename, ezxml_t cfg_output) {
+    FILE * data_file = fopen(filename, "w+");
+    char * new_cfg_str = ezxml_toxml(cfg_output);
+    unsigned int cfg_len = strlen(new_cfg_str);
+    unsigned long long zero = 0;
+    int i = 0;
+    unsigned long long offset = 0;
+    unsigned long long file_cnt = num_files;
+
+    fwrite("v3vee\0\0\0", 8, 1, data_file);
+    offset += 8;
+
+    //  printf("New config: \n%s\n", new_cfg_str);
+    
+    fwrite(&cfg_len, sizeof(unsigned int), 1, data_file);
+    offset += sizeof(unsigned int);
+
+    fwrite(new_cfg_str, cfg_len, 1, data_file);
+    offset += cfg_len;
+
+    fwrite(&zero, 1, 8, data_file);
+    offset += 8;
+
+    printf("setting number of files to %llu\n", file_cnt);
+    printf("sizeof(file_cnt)=%d \n", sizeof(file_cnt));
+
+    fwrite(&file_cnt, 8, 1, data_file);
+    offset += 8;
+
+    // each index entry is 16 bytes long plus end padding
+    offset += (16 * num_files) + 8;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < num_files; i++) {
+	fwrite(&i, 4, 1, data_file);
+	fwrite(&(files[i].size), 4, 1, data_file);
+	fwrite(&offset, 8, 1, data_file);
+
+	offset += files[i].size;
+    }
+
+    fwrite(&zero, 1, 8, data_file);
+
+    for (i = 0; i < num_files; i++) {
+	if (fwrite(files[i].data, 1, files[i].size, data_file) != files[i].size) {
+	    printf("Error writing data file contents");
+	    exit(-1);
+	}	
+    }
+    
+
+
+    fclose(data_file);
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+
+
+int parse_config_input(ezxml_t cfg_input) {
+    ezxml_t file_tags = NULL;
+    ezxml_t tmp_file_tag = NULL;
+
+    // files are transformed into blobs that are slapped to the end of the file
+        
+    file_tags = ezxml_child(cfg_input, "files");
+
+    tmp_file_tag = ezxml_child(file_tags, "file");
+
+    while (tmp_file_tag) {
+	char * filename = get_val(tmp_file_tag, "filename");
+	struct stat file_stats;
+	FILE * data_file = NULL;
+	char * id = get_val(tmp_file_tag, "id");
+	char index_buf[256];
+
+	snprintf(index_buf, 256, "%d", num_files);
+
+
+	strncpy(files[num_files].id, ezxml_attr(tmp_file_tag, "id"), 256);
+
+	printf("file id=%s, name=%s\n", 
+	       id,
+	       filename);
+	
+
+	if (stat(filename, &file_stats) != 0) {
+	    perror(filename);
+	    exit(-1);
+	}
+
+	files[num_files].size = (unsigned int)file_stats.st_size;
+	printf("file size = %d\n", files[num_files].size);
+
+	files[num_files].data = malloc(files[num_files].size);
+
+	data_file = fopen(filename, "r");
+
+	if (fread(files[num_files].data, files[num_files].size, 1, data_file) == 0) {
+	    printf("Error reading data file %s\n", filename);
+	    exit(-1);
+	}
+
+	fclose(data_file);
+
+
+	ezxml_set_attr_d(tmp_file_tag, "index", index_buf);
+
+	num_files++;
+	tmp_file_tag = ezxml_next(tmp_file_tag);
+    }
+
+
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/out_format b/utils/guest_creator/out_format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8f82fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/guest_creator/out_format
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+v3vee\0\0\0        : 8 bytes
+<length of xml>    : 4 bytes
+<xml>
+<zeroes>           : 8 bytes of zeroes
+
+<num files>        : 8 bytes
+
+<index>            : 4 bytes
+<size>             : 4 bytes
+<offset>           : 8 bytes
+...
+<padding>          : zeroes to 8 byte boundary
diff --git a/utils/guest_creator/test.xml b/utils/guest_creator/test.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..79169c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/guest_creator/test.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+
+<vm class="PC">
+       <memory>1024</memory>
+       <telemetry>enable</telemetry>
+       <paging>nested</paging>
+       <schedule_hz>100</schedule_hz>
+
+       <memmap>
+               <region>
+                       <start>0xa0000</start>
+                       <end>0xc0000</end>
+                       <host_addr>0xa0000</host_addr>
+               </region>
+       </memmap>
+
+       <files>
+               <file id="boot-cd" filename="/home/jarusl/image.iso" />
+               <!--<file id="harddisk" filename="firefox.img" />-->
+       </files>
+
+       <devices>
+               <device id="8259A" />
+               <device id="KEYBOARD" />
+               <device id="8254_PIT" />
+               <device id="BOCHS_DEBUG" />
+               <device id="OS_DEBUG" />
+               <device id="LAPIC" />
+               <device id="IOAPIC">
+                       <irq_bus>LAPIC</irq_bus>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="CGA_VIDEO" />
+               <device id="TELNET_CONSOLE">
+                       <frontend id="CGA_VIDEO" />
+                       <port>19997</port>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="PCI" />
+
+               <device id="i440FX">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="PIIX3">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="LNX_VIRTIO_SYM">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="LNX_VIRTIO_BLK">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="LNX_VIRTIO_BALLOON">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="SYM_SWAP">
+                       <frontend id="LNX_VIRTIO_BLK" />
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="IDE">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+                       <controller>PIIX3</controller>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="PCI_PASSTHROUGH">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+                       <name>E1000</name>
+                       <vendor_id>0x8086</vendor>
+                       <device_id>0x100e</device_id>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="PCI_PASSTHROUGH">
+                       <bus>PCI</bus>
+                       <name>E1000</name>
+                       <vendor_id>0x8086</vendor>
+                       <device_id>0x107c</device_id>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="RAMDISK">
+                       <file>harddisk</file>
+                       <frontend id="LNX_VIRTIO_BLK" />
+               </device>
+
+
+               <device id="RAMDISK">
+                       <file>boot-cd</file>
+                       <frontend id="IDE">
+                          <bus>0</bus>
+                          <channel>0</channel>
+                       </frontend>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="NVRAM">
+                       <storage>IDE</storage>
+               </device>
+
+               <device id="GENERIC">
+                       <ports>
+                               <op>PRINT_AND_IGNORE</op>
+                               <start>0x00</start>
+                               <end>0x07</end>
+                       </ports>
+                       <ports>
+                               <op>PRINT_AND_IGNORE</op>
+                               <start>0xc0</start>
+                               </end>0xc7</end>
+                       </ports>
+               </device>
+       </devices>
+
+
+</vm>
+
+