Some drivers require a server in order to work, so this flag removes the burden of esach driver to check for an server by doing it in virConnectOpenInternal. Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@xxxxxxxxx> --- src/libvirt.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c index 52f4dd2808..aeb8804714 100644 --- a/src/libvirt.c +++ b/src/libvirt.c @@ -1029,6 +1029,13 @@ virConnectOpenInternal(const char *name, VIR_DEBUG("Matching any URI scheme for '%s'", ret->uri ? ret->uri->scheme : ""); } + /* before starting the new connection, check if the driver only works + * with a server, and so return an error if the server is missing */ + if (virConnectDriverTab[i]->remoteOnly && ret->uri && !ret->uri->server) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG, "%s", _("URI is missing the server part")); + goto failed; + } + ret->driver = virConnectDriverTab[i]->hypervisorDriver; ret->interfaceDriver = virConnectDriverTab[i]->interfaceDriver; ret->networkDriver = virConnectDriverTab[i]->networkDriver; -- 2.17.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list