The advisory nodeset from numad is parsed irrespective of the string being empty or not. Avoid parsing an empty nodeset string. Signed-off-by: Nitesh Konkar <nitkon12(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index 85b800d..1c49fa6 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -5456,7 +5456,7 @@ qemuProcessPrepareDomain(virConnectPtr conn, if (virDomainDefNeedsPlacementAdvice(vm->def)) { nodeset = virNumaGetAutoPlacementAdvice(virDomainDefGetVcpus(vm->def), virDomainDefGetMemoryTotal(vm->def)); - if (!nodeset) + if (virStringIsEmpty(nodeset)) goto cleanup; VIR_DEBUG("Nodeset returned from numad: %s", nodeset);