I found this while looking for examples of using virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc(). AFAIK, *all* of the *GetXMLDesc() functions return a newly allocated chunk of memory that is owned by the caller, who must free it when they're done... --- src/virsh.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/virsh.c b/src/virsh.c index 15e0cef..910d860 100644 --- a/src/virsh.c +++ b/src/virsh.c @@ -5521,6 +5521,7 @@ cmdNodeDeviceDumpXML (vshControl *ctl, const vshCmd *cmd) { const char *name; virNodeDevicePtr device; + char *xml; if (!vshConnectionUsability(ctl, ctl->conn, TRUE)) return FALSE; @@ -5531,7 +5532,14 @@ cmdNodeDeviceDumpXML (vshControl *ctl, const vshCmd *cmd) return FALSE; } - vshPrint(ctl, "%s\n", virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc(device, 0)); + xml = virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc(device, 0); + if (!xml) { + virNodeDeviceFree(device); + return FALSE; + } + + vshPrint(ctl, "%s\n", xml); + free(xml); virNodeDeviceFree(device); return TRUE; } -- 1.6.2.5