Even if namespaces are disabled, then due to a missing check at the beginning of qemuDomainBuildNamespace(), the domain startup code still tries to populate (nonexistent) domain's namespace. Fixes: 8da362fe62766b4eee209cd3ce591ceb62299d13 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c b/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c index 797722b714..b6724a095f 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c @@ -616,6 +616,11 @@ qemuDomainBuildNamespace(virQEMUDriverConfigPtr cfg, { VIR_AUTOSTRINGLIST paths = NULL; + if (!qemuDomainNamespaceEnabled(vm, QEMU_DOMAIN_NS_MOUNT)) { + VIR_DEBUG("namespaces disabled for domain %s", vm->def->name); + return 0; + } + if (qemuDomainPopulateDevices(cfg, &paths) < 0) return -1;