This reverts commit cdc42d0a4865199a941d330dbb6ca1ef426323ae. As DanB pointed out, this patch is actually wrong. The real bug that was causing me to see this problem is a bug introduced in a RHEL-5 libvirt snapshot, and I'm going to fix the real bug there. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/conf/domain_conf.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 6d0e2dc..e548d1d 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -2876,7 +2876,7 @@ static int virDomainHostdevSubsysPciDefParseXML(virConnectPtr conn, const xmlNodePtr node, virDomainHostdevDefPtr def, - int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) { + int flags) { int ret = -1; xmlNodePtr cur; @@ -2890,7 +2890,8 @@ virDomainHostdevSubsysPciDefParseXML(virConnectPtr conn, if (virDomainDevicePCIAddressParseXML(conn, cur, addr) < 0) goto out; - } else if (xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "state")) { + } else if ((flags & VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_STATUS) && + xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "state")) { /* Legacy back-compat. Don't add any more attributes here */ char *devaddr = virXMLPropString(cur, "devaddr"); if (devaddr &&