commit 400e716d7d8371fa718c27bb4f05b9a68929e64a Author: Jim Fehlig Date: Thu May 12 14:40:28 2016 -0600 libxl: don't attempt to probe a non-existent emulator When probing the with '-help' to determine if it is the old qemu, errors are reported if the emulator doesn't exist libvirt: error : internal error: Child process (/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm -help) unexpected exit status 127: libvirt: error : cannot execute binary /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm: No such file or directory Avoid the probe if the specified emulator doesn't exist, squelching the error. There is no behavior change since libxlDomainGetEmulatorType() would return LIBXL_DEVICE_MODEL_VERSION_QEMU_XEN if the probe failed via virCommandRun(). Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig Index: libvirt-1.3.4/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c =================================================================== --- libvirt-1.3.4.orig/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c +++ libvirt-1.3.4/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c @@ -916,6 +916,9 @@ libxlDomainGetEmulatorType(const virDoma if (def->os.type == VIR_DOMAIN_OSTYPE_HVM) { if (def->emulator) { + if (!virFileExists(def->emulator)) + goto cleanup; + cmd = virCommandNew(def->emulator); virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-help", NULL);