[libvirt] [PATCH] vbox: Silently ignore missing registry key on Windows

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Mon Jan 10 22:04:50 UTC 2011


On 11/01/2011, at 1:09 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Don't report an error when the VirtualBox registry key is missing,
> as this just indicates that VirtualBox is not installed in general.
> 
> This matches the behavior of the XPCOM glue that silently ignores
> a missing VBoxXPCOMC.so.
> ---
> src/vbox/vbox_MSCOMGlue.c |    2 --
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/vbox/vbox_MSCOMGlue.c b/src/vbox/vbox_MSCOMGlue.c
> index e6a886f..be0ec34 100644
> --- a/src/vbox/vbox_MSCOMGlue.c
> +++ b/src/vbox/vbox_MSCOMGlue.c
> @@ -356,8 +356,6 @@ vboxLookupVersionInRegistry(void)
>         status = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, keyName, 0, KEY_READ, &key);
> 
>         if (status != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
> -            VIR_ERROR(_("Could not open registry key '%s' nor '%s'"),
> -                      VBOX_REGKEY_ORACLE, VBOX_REGKEY_SUN);
>             return -1;
>         }
>     }

Tested this on a new build of the installer, and the error message no longer appears. :)





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