In the end of virConnectGetVersion() description there is written: "not with a Read-Only connection" which isn't true after I tried virConnectOpenReadOnly() with virConnectGetVersion() and it clearly shows the version correctly. Signed-off-by: Stepan Zobal <szobal(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/libvirt-host.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libvirt-host.c b/src/libvirt-host.c index e67b36812e..5030707bbf 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-host.c +++ b/src/libvirt-host.c @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ virConnectGetType(virConnectPtr conn) * @hvVer: return value for the version of the running hypervisor (OUT) * * Get the version level of the Hypervisor running. This may work only with - * hypervisor call, i.e. with privileged access to the hypervisor, not - * with a Read-Only connection. + * hypervisor call, i.e. with privileged access to the hypervisor. * * Returns -1 in case of error, 0 otherwise. if the version can't be * extracted by lack of capacities returns 0 and @hvVer is 0, otherwise -- 2.46.0