Adjust virLXCDriverGetCapabilities to fill in driver->caps if it is empty, regardless of the passed 'refresh' value. This matches the pattern used in virQEMUDriverGetCapabilities This fixes LXC XML startup parsing for me Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com&gt; --- v2: Use the virQEMUDriverGetCapabilities like danpb suggested src/lxc/lxc_conf.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_conf.c b/src/lxc/lxc_conf.c index 2df1537b22..adf7a0b66c 100644 --- a/src/lxc/lxc_conf.c +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_conf.c @@ -196,6 +196,14 @@ virCapsPtr virLXCDriverGetCapabilities(virLXCDriverPtr driver, driver->caps = caps; } else { lxcDriverLock(driver); + + if (driver->caps == NULL || + driver->caps->nguests == 0) { + VIR_DEBUG("Capabilities didn't detect any guests. Forcing a " + "refresh."); + lxcDriverUnlock(driver); + return virLXCDriverGetCapabilities(driver, true); + } } ret = virObjectRef(driver->caps); -- 2.23.0