When virsh connects to a non-hypervisor daemon directly (e.g. "nodedev:///system") and user executes 'version' they are met with an error message. This is because cmdVersion() calls virConnectGetVersion() which fails, hence the error. The reason for virConnectGetVersion() fail is simple - it's documented as: Get the version level of the Hypervisor running. Well, there's no hypervisor in non-hypervisor daemons and thus it doesn't make sense to provide an implementation in each driver's virConnectDriver.hypervisorDriver table (just like we do for other APIs, e.g. nodeConnectIsSecure()). Given all of this, just make cmdVersion() deal with the error in a non-fatal fashion. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/virsh-host.c | 26 ++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh-host.c b/tools/virsh-host.c index 0bda327cae..35e6a2eb98 100644 --- a/tools/virsh-host.c +++ b/tools/virsh-host.c @@ -1447,21 +1447,19 @@ cmdVersion(vshControl *ctl, const vshCmd *cmd G_GNUC_UNUSED) vshPrint(ctl, _("Using API: %1$s %2$d.%3$d.%4$d\n"), hvType, major, minor, rel); - if (virConnectGetVersion(priv->conn, &hvVersion) < 0) { - vshError(ctl, "%s", _("failed to get the hypervisor version")); - return false; - } - if (hvVersion == 0) { - vshPrint(ctl, - _("Cannot extract running %1$s hypervisor version\n"), hvType); - } else { - major = hvVersion / 1000000; - hvVersion %= 1000000; - minor = hvVersion / 1000; - rel = hvVersion % 1000; + if (virConnectGetVersion(priv->conn, &hvVersion) >= 0) { + if (hvVersion == 0) { + vshPrint(ctl, + _("Cannot extract running %1$s hypervisor version\n"), hvType); + } else { + major = hvVersion / 1000000; + hvVersion %= 1000000; + minor = hvVersion / 1000; + rel = hvVersion % 1000; - vshPrint(ctl, _("Running hypervisor: %1$s %2$d.%3$d.%4$d\n"), - hvType, major, minor, rel); + vshPrint(ctl, _("Running hypervisor: %1$s %2$d.%3$d.%4$d\n"), + hvType, major, minor, rel); + } } if (vshCommandOptBool(cmd, "daemon")) { -- 2.41.0