From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; A common coding pattern for changing blkio parameters is 1. virDomainGetBlkioParameters 2. change one or more params 3. virDomainSetBlkioParameters For this to work, it must be possible to roundtrip through the methods without error. Unforuntelty virDomainGetBlkioParameters will return "" for the deviceWeight parameter for guests by default, which virDomainSetBlkioParameters will then reject as invalid. This fixes the handling of "" to be a no-op, and also improves the error message to tell you what was invalid --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index b20b3e9..2c467ab 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -5959,6 +5959,12 @@ qemuDomainParseDeviceWeightStr(char *deviceWeightStr, int i; virBlkioDeviceWeightPtr result = NULL; + *dw = NULL; + *size = 0; + + if (STREQ(deviceWeightStr, "")) + return 0; + temp = deviceWeightStr; while (temp) { temp = strchr(temp, ','); @@ -6021,7 +6027,7 @@ qemuDomainParseDeviceWeightStr(char *deviceWeightStr, error: qemuReportError(VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG, - _("unable to parse %s"), deviceWeightStr); + _("unable to parse device weight '%s'"), deviceWeightStr); cleanup: virBlkioDeviceWeightArrayClear(result, ndevices); VIR_FREE(result); -- 1.7.7.6