[libvirt] Segfault in virDomainObjListSearchName when listing domains (qemu backend)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:00:50PM +0200, Guido Winkelmann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2010 schrieb Guido Winkelmann:
> > Am Dienstag, 29. Juni 2010 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
> > > Actually that patch wasn't very nice, so I've prepared a different one
> > > which should fix the problem in a better way. Separately, I'd like to
> > > know what errors you get when QEMU fails to start ?
> > 
> > I've filed a bug report about this:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609575
> > 
> > I'm afraid I'm not getting any really useful error messages... (see the bug
> > report for details.)
> 
> I have been experimenting with starting qemu manually with the same 
> commandline that libvirt would use, and I have found that if I leave out the
> "-nodefaults" parameter, the VM will start up reliably again.
> 
> What are the reasons for libvirt to use that parameter in the first place?

By default QEMU creates a whole bunch of extra devices (serial ports, parallel
ports, IDE cdrom & god knows what other junk). -nodefaults removes all this
so you get a reliable & predictable set of hardware.

> What bad things might happen if I just leave it out all the time (or patch my 
> local copy of libvirt that way)?

You'll get random hardware added to your guest.

I don't think -nodefaults is the cause of the problem - it will merely
be highlighting a problem elsewhere in QEMU

Daniel
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