2010/10/1 Roberto Attias (rattias) <rattias@xxxxxxxxx>:
> <resending as I don’t think I was in the mailing list yet when I sent first
> time… apologies if you receive this twice>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I’m facing some strange behavior, and I hope you can provide a
> clarification.
>
> Consider the following code:
>
>
>
> virDomainPtr dom = virDomainLookupByName(virt, domain_name);
>
> if (dom) {
>
> printf("domain already defined...\n");
>
> if (virDomainUndefine(dom))
>
> printf("...unable to undefine!!!\n");
>
> else {
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> printf("...undefined.");
>
> free(dom);
>
> }
>
> }
You're leaking a virDomainPtr here. Call virDomainFree(dom) before
overwriting the pointer with the result from virDomainDefineXML.
I think the leaked virDomainPtr causes the trouble you describe. So
fixing the leak will probably also fix the problem you see in the
second run.
> dom = virDomainDefineXML(virt, SOME_XML);
>
Matthias
