Otherwise connections to older libvirt abort with: $ virsh -c qemu+ssh://host.example.com/system list error: invalid connection pointer in virDrvSupportsFeature error: failed to connect to the hypervisor Tested against 0.8.3 and 0.9.8. --- src/remote/remote_driver.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Cheers, -- Guido diff --git a/src/remote/remote_driver.c b/src/remote/remote_driver.c index 556c90c..1fb0eca 100644 --- a/src/remote/remote_driver.c +++ b/src/remote/remote_driver.c @@ -678,10 +678,8 @@ doRemoteOpen (virConnectPtr conn, rc = call(conn, priv, 0, REMOTE_PROC_SUPPORTS_FEATURE, (xdrproc_t)xdr_remote_supports_feature_args, (char *) &args, (xdrproc_t)xdr_remote_supports_feature_ret, (char *) &ret); - if (rc == -1) - goto failed; - if (ret.supported) { + if (rc != -1 && ret.supported) { priv->serverKeepAlive = true; } else { VIR_INFO("Disabling keepalive protocol since it is not supported" -- 1.7.7.3