Our startup policy checkers work only for local paths, so disk sources such as NVMe, or vhost-user can't be used with startup policy.
Unfortunately the validation did not catch these cases. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkre...@redhat.com> --- src/conf/domain_validate.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_validate.c b/src/conf/domain_validate.c index 70e9167eac..9c55d05cac 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_validate.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_validate.c @@ -638,7 +638,10 @@ virDomainDiskDefValidateStartupPolicy(const virDomainDiskDef *disk) if (disk->startupPolicy == VIR_DOMAIN_STARTUP_POLICY_DEFAULT) return 0; - if (disk->src->type == VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_NETWORK) { + /* We want to allow any startup policy for un-translated _TYPE_VOLUME disks. + * virStorageSourceGetActualType returns _TYPE_VOLUME in such case */ + if (virStorageSourceGetActualType(disk->src) != VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_VOLUME && + !virStorageSourceIsLocalStorage(disk->src)) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, _("disk startupPolicy '%s' is not allowed for disk of '%s' type"), virDomainStartupPolicyTypeToString(disk->startupPolicy), -- 2.36.1