From 41ba079eb86f7d6ee138254519cbb41c8dbcb779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marek=20Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki?=
 <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:47:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Force the first character of VM name to be a letter

Especially don't allow numeric-only name (our deserializer of qubes.xml
will convert it to int instead of str...).
---
 core-modules/000QubesVm.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core-modules/000QubesVm.py b/core-modules/000QubesVm.py
index ddab54cf..d229e6d6 100644
--- a/core-modules/000QubesVm.py
+++ b/core-modules/000QubesVm.py
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ class QubesVm(object):
             return False
 
     def verify_name(self, name):
-        return re.match(r"^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*$", name) is not None
+        return re.match(r"^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*$", name) is not None
 
     def pre_rename(self, new_name):
         # fire hooks