In this case we would print only the libvirt part of error message without any explanation what happened: "error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor:" Let's print a generic error if this happens. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335617 Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index e847cd1..86701da 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -1808,6 +1808,13 @@ qemuProcessReportLogError(qemuDomainLogContextPtr logCtxt, if (qemuProcessReadLog(logCtxt, &logmsg) < 0) return -1; + if (virStringIsEmpty(logmsg)) { + VIR_FREE(logmsg); + if (VIR_STRDUP(logmsg, _("qemu process exited without any " + "error printed out")) < 0) + return -1; + } + virResetLastError(); virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, _("%s: %s"), msgprefix, logmsg); -- 2.8.3