Only fairly new QEMUs are capable of user provided number of preallocation threads. Validate this assumption. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c index f27e480696..e0708b8a76 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c @@ -739,6 +739,13 @@ qemuValidateDomainDefMemory(const virDomainDef *def, return -1; } + if (mem->allocation_threads > 0 && + !virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_MEMORY_BACKEND_PREALLOC_THREADS)) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", + _("preallocation threads are unsupported with this QEMU")); + return -1; + } + if (mem->source == VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_SOURCE_ANONYMOUS) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", _("hugepages are not allowed with anonymous " -- 2.34.1