From: Eli Qiao <taget(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Eli Qiao <taget(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; When configure the URI aliase like this in 'libvirt.conf': uri_aliases = [ "jj#j=qemu+ssh://root@127.0.0.1/system", "sleet=qemu+ssh://root@sleet.cloud.example.com/system", ] virsh -c jj#j It will show this error message: 'no connection driver available for No connection for URI jj#j' Actually ���we expect this message below��� Malformed 'uri_aliases' config entry 'jj#j=qemu+ssh://root@127.0.0.1/system', aliases may only container 'a-Z, 0-9, _, -' Give this patch to fix this error. --- src/libvirt.c | 5 ----- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c index 1518ed2..17e073e 100644 --- a/src/libvirt.c +++ b/src/libvirt.c @@ -1054,11 +1054,6 @@ virConnectOpenResolveURIAlias(const char *alias, char **uri) *uri = NULL; - /* Short circuit to avoid doing URI alias resolution - * when it clearly isn't an valid alias */ - if (strspn(alias, URI_ALIAS_CHARS) != strlen(alias)) - return 0; - if (!(config = virConnectConfigFile())) goto cleanup; -- 1.7.4.4