Since its introduction in commit 874e65aa, if someone requests: <os><bios useserial="yes"/><os/> we report an error if we cannot successfully count the number of serial devices via an XPath query. Instead of fixing the check (and moving it to the validation phase, to prevent existing domains from disappearing), drop it completely. For QEMU, the number of serials is checked when building the command line. --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 14 +++----------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 3bef5bed3..e563007ba 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -16127,7 +16127,7 @@ virDomainDefParseBootXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, int n; char *tmp = NULL; int ret = -1; - unsigned long deviceBoot, serialPorts; + unsigned long deviceBoot; if (virXPathULong("count(./devices/disk[boot]" "|./devices/interface[boot]" @@ -16204,18 +16204,10 @@ virDomainDefParseBootXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt, if ((node = virXPathNode("./os/bios[1]", ctxt))) { tmp = virXMLPropString(node, "useserial"); if (tmp) { - if (STREQ(tmp, "yes")) { - if (virXPathULong("count(./devices/serial)", - ctxt, &serialPorts) < 0) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", - _("need at least one serial port " - "for useserial")); - goto cleanup; - } + if (STREQ(tmp, "yes")) def->os.bios.useserial = VIR_TRISTATE_BOOL_YES; - } else { + else def->os.bios.useserial = VIR_TRISTATE_BOOL_NO; - } VIR_FREE(tmp); } -- 2.13.0