Dear Debian folks,
the message below is in my system log.
libvirtd[974]: XML error: malformed owner element
The same issue is reported in the Red Hat Bugzilla bug tracker as
#894667 [1] and the information provided there, I found the incorrect
file.
$ sudo virsh pool-define /etc/libvirt/storage/on-home.xml
error: Failed to define pool from /etc/libvirt/storage/on-home.xml
error: XML error: malformed owner element
$ sudo more /etc/libvirt/storage/on-home.xml
<!--
WARNING: THIS IS AN AUTO-GENERATED FILE. CHANGES TO IT ARE LIKELY TO BE
OVERWRITTEN AND LOST. Changes to this xml configuration should be made using:
virsh pool-edit on-home
or other application using the libvirt API.
-->
<pool type='dir'>
<name>on-home</name>
<uuid>7bacae66-e8ce-7192-6f65-8c49acb5dddf</uuid>
<capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity>
<allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation>
<available unit='bytes'>0</available>
<source>
</source>
<target>
<path>/home/joe/virtuelle-maschinen-abbilder</path>
<permissions>
<mode>0700</mode>
<owner>4294967295</owner>
<group>4294967295</group>
</permissions>
</target>
</pool>
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894667