On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:08:46PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > missing space in summary > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:50:01 +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > > What one currently gets is: > > failed to read '/sys/bus/mdev/devices/<UUID>/mdev_type/device_api': No > > such file or directory > > > > This indicates that something is missing within the device's sysfs tree > > which likely might be not be the case here because the device simply > > doesn't exist yet. So, when creating our internal mdev obj, let's check > > whether the device exists first prior to trying to verify the > > user-provided model within domain XML. > > > > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > src/util/virmdev.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/src/util/virmdev.c b/src/util/virmdev.c > > index e4816cf20..2e3769aa6 100644 > > --- a/src/util/virmdev.c > > +++ b/src/util/virmdev.c > > @@ -150,13 +150,22 @@ virMediatedDeviceNew(const char *uuidstr, virMediatedDeviceModelType model) > > { > > virMediatedDevicePtr ret = NULL; > > virMediatedDevicePtr dev = NULL; > > + char *sysfspath = NULL; > > + > > + if (!(sysfspath = virMediatedDeviceGetSysfsPath(uuidstr))) > > + goto cleanup; > > + > > + if (!virFileExists(sysfspath)) { > > + virReportSystemError(errno, _("failed to read device '%s'"), > > + sysfspath); > > You did not try to read the device at this point. It merely does not > exist. Would you like "device '%s' not found" better? Erik -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list