Write a VMware file (excepting VMX file).

        :param path: path to the VMware file
        :param pairs: settings to write

def write_vmware_file(path, pairs):
        """
        Write a VMware file (excepting VMX file).

        :param path: path to the VMware file
        :param pairs: settings to write
        """

        encoding = "utf-8"
        if ".encoding" in pairs:
            file_encoding = pairs[".encoding"]
            try:
                codecs.lookup(file_encoding)
                encoding = file_encoding
            except LookupError:
                log.warning("Invalid file encoding detected in '{}': {}".format(path, file_encoding))
        with open(path, "w", encoding=encoding, errors="ignore") as f:
            for key, value in pairs.items():
                entry = '{} = "{}"\n'.format(key, value)
                f.write(entry)