It's not a problem at all and causes virt-manager to break down. Note: netcf 0.2.8 generates invalid XML for a bond with no interfaces anyway, so this error is in fact not reached as we fail earlier. Fix submitted upstream. Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak(a)v3.sk&gt; --- src/conf/interface_conf.c | 16 ++++++---------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/interface_conf.c b/src/conf/interface_conf.c index c2eb945..29769ac 100644 --- a/src/conf/interface_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/interface_conf.c @@ -553,19 +553,15 @@ virInterfaceDefParseBondItfs(virInterfaceDefPtr def, nbItf = virXPathNodeSet("./interface", ctxt, &interfaces); if (nbItf < 0) { ret = -1; - goto error; + goto cleanup; } - if (nbItf == 0) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, - "%s", _("bond has no interfaces")); - ret = -1; - goto error; - } + if (nbItf == 0) + goto cleanup; if (VIR_ALLOC_N(def->data.bond.itf, nbItf) < 0) { ret = -1; - goto error; + goto cleanup; } def->data.bond.nbItf = nbItf; @@ -575,12 +571,12 @@ virInterfaceDefParseBondItfs(virInterfaceDefPtr def, if (itf == NULL) { ret = -1; def->data.bond.nbItf = i; - goto error; + goto cleanup; } def->data.bond.itf[i] = itf; } - error: + cleanup: VIR_FREE(interfaces); ctxt->node = bond; return ret; -- 2.4.1