The next patch wants to add some sanity checking, which would
be a different error than ENOMEM. Many existing callers blindly
report OOM failure if virBuf reports an error, and this will be
wrong in the (unlikely) case that they actually had a usage error
instead; but since the most common error really is ENOMEM, I'm
not going to fix all callers. Meanwhile, new discriminating
callers can react differently depending on what failure happened.