Modify virDomainDefGetVcpuSched to emit an error message if virDomainDefGetVcpu returns NULL meaning the vcpu could not be found. Prior to commit id '9cc931f0b' the error message would have been issued in virDomainDefGetVcpu. Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- v1: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-August/msg00754.html Wasn't fully clear from the v1 discussion whether my proposal for vcpusched was acceptible or not, so I figured I'd generate a v2 and of course the example... Using a domain without <vcpusched> in a <cputune>, if there's: <vcpu placement='static' current='2'>4</vcpu> in the domain XML and one uses virsh edit to add: <vcpusched vcpus='7-8' scheduler='idle'/> then the generic error message is displayed. This only occurs as of v2.1 where the message was removed from virDomainDefGetVcpu. src/conf/domain_conf.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 9037304..14d4f7d 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -1480,8 +1480,12 @@ virDomainDefGetVcpuSched(virDomainDefPtr def, { virDomainVcpuDefPtr vcpuinfo; - if (!(vcpuinfo = virDomainDefGetVcpu(def, vcpu))) + if (!(vcpuinfo = virDomainDefGetVcpu(def, vcpu))) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, + _("vCPU '%u' is not present in domain definition"), + vcpu); return NULL; + } return &vcpuinfo->sched; } -- 2.7.4