The file being present doesn't necessarily mean anything these days, as it's created independently of whether the kvm module has been loaded; moreover, we're already gathering all the information we need through QMP, so poking the filesystem at all is entirely unnecessary. [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/d35d6249d5a7ed3228 Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index 348b478159..3d99c95a6a 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -834,9 +834,8 @@ virQEMUCapsInitGuestFromBinary(virCapsPtr caps, if (!binary) return 0; - if (virFileExists("/dev/kvm") && - (virQEMUCapsGet(qemubinCaps, QEMU_CAPS_KVM) || - kvmbin)) + if (virQEMUCapsGet(qemubinCaps, QEMU_CAPS_KVM) || + kvmbin) haskvm = true; if (virQEMUCapsGetMachineTypesCaps(qemubinCaps, &nmachines, &machines) < 0) -- 2.17.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list