supportGroupNameOption was originally passed before the below patch. To solve the issue of that patch this change is not necessary and it make sense to pass supportGroupNameOption because of qemuMonitorSetBlockIoThrottle signature. With patch group_name is passed to qemu if disk in iotune group but group is not passed explicitly in parametes. For qemu it does not make a difference. I'm preparing here for the next patch where another usage of supportGroupNameOption will gone and instead of deleting supportGroupNameOption variable altogether I guess it is better to restore it's proper usage. commit e9d75343d4cf552575a3b305fa00a36ee71e9309 Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 24 15:50:00 2017 +0100 qemu: Only set group_name when actually requested Signed-off-by: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshirokovskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 027617d..b7f22c2 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -16310,7 +16310,7 @@ qemuDomainSetBlockIoTune(virDomainPtr dom, qemuDomainObjEnterMonitor(driver, vm); ret = qemuMonitorSetBlockIoThrottle(priv->mon, drivealias, qdevid, &info, supportMaxOptions, - set_fields & QEMU_BLOCK_IOTUNE_SET_GROUP_NAME, + supportGroupNameOption, supportMaxLengthOptions); if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0) ret = -1; -- 1.8.3.1