The only code path which calls the parser with the VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_DISK_SOURCE is from qemuDomainBlockCopy. Since that code path can properly handle backing chains for the disk and it's desired to pass the parsed chains to the block copy code remove the condition which prevents parsing the <backingStore> element. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 0456369d55..52a3dd4064 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -10293,10 +10293,8 @@ virDomainDiskDefParseXML(virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt, VIR_STEAL_PTR(def->vendor, vendor); VIR_STEAL_PTR(def->product, product); - if (!(flags & VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_DISK_SOURCE)) { - if (virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse(ctxt, def->src, flags, xmlopt) < 0) - goto error; - } + if (virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse(ctxt, def->src, flags, xmlopt) < 0) + goto error; if (flags & VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_STATUS && virDomainDiskDefParsePrivateData(ctxt, def, xmlopt) < 0) -- 2.21.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list