The patch which reworked the iptables rules saving accidently dropped the call to virFileMakePath() resulting in: Failed to saves iptables rules to /var/lib/libvirt/iptables/filter/INPUT.chain : No such file or directory Re-instate the virFileMakePath() call. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Index: libvirt/src/iptables.c =================================================================== --- libvirt.orig/src/iptables.c 2008-02-06 23:14:28.000000000 +0000 +++ libvirt/src/iptables.c 2008-02-06 23:15:33.000000000 +0000 @@ -238,6 +238,12 @@ #ifdef ENABLE_IPTABLES_LOKKIT int err; + if ((err = virFileMakePath(rules->dir))) { + qemudLog(QEMUD_WARN "Failed to create directory %s : %s", + rules->dir, strerror(err)); + return; + } + if ((err = writeRules(rules->path, rules->rules, rules->nrules))) { qemudLog(QEMUD_WARN, "Failed to saves iptables rules to %s : %s", rules->path, strerror(err)); --