On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:35:18AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The guarenteed correct solution is actually rather simple > > - Always report errors against the virConnect object, even in the driver > open method > > - In the cleanup patch of do_open() in libvirt.c, if no global error is > set, copy the error from the virConnect object's virError, into the > global virError. +1 , although unfortunately this isn't thread-safe. Nothing can be thread-safe unless we change the API. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list