https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266088 We are missing this value for cdrom-image device. Honestly, I have no idea whether it can happen for other disk devices too. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/vmx/vmx.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/vmx/vmx.c b/src/vmx/vmx.c index 568b2c7..baf27de 100644 --- a/src/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/src/vmx/vmx.c @@ -2317,6 +2317,16 @@ virVMXParseDisk(virVMXContext *ctx, virDomainXMLOptionPtr xmlopt, virConfPtr con */ goto ignore; } + } else if (STREQ(fileName, "emptyBackingString")) { + if (deviceType && STRCASENEQ(deviceType, "cdrom-image")) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, + _("Expecting VMX entry '%s' to be 'cdrom-image' " + "but found '%s'"), deviceType_name, deviceType); + goto cleanup; + } + + virDomainDiskSetType(*def, VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_FILE); + ignore_value(virDomainDiskSetSource(*def, NULL)); } else { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, _("Invalid or not yet handled value '%s' " -- 2.4.10