When parsing domain XML the virCapsDomainData lookup is performed in order to fill in missing def->os.arch and def->os.machine strings. Well, when doing copy of already existing virDomainDef we don't want any automagic fill in of defaults (and those two strings are going to be provided at this point anyway by first parse of the domain XML). What is even worse is that we do not look up capabilities for parsed emulator path rather than some generic capabilities for parsed arch. Therefore, if emulator points to qemu under non-default path (say $HOME/qemu-system-arm) but there's no such qemu under the default path (say /usr/bin/qemu-system-arm) the capabilities lookup fails and creating the copy is denied. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 86814d5f64..f36a1bfe79 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -28397,7 +28397,8 @@ virDomainDefCopy(virDomainDefPtr src, virDomainDefPtr ret; unsigned int format_flags = VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_SECURE; unsigned int parse_flags = VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE | - VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE; + VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE | + VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS; if (migratable) format_flags |= VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_INACTIVE | VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_MIGRATABLE; -- 2.16.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list