update logic of checking if the device in candidate list is meta plugin

src/inference/src/dev/core_impl.cpp

@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ void stripDeviceName(std::string& device, const std::string& substr) {
 }
 
 bool is_virtual_device(const std::string& device_name) {
-    return (device_name.find("AUTO") != std::string::npos || device_name.find("MULTI") != std::string::npos ||
-            device_name.find("HETERO") != std::string::npos || device_name.find("BATCH") != std::string::npos);
+    return (device_name.find("AUTO") == 0 || device_name.find("MULTI") == 0 || device_name.find("HETERO") == 0 ||
+            device_name.find("BATCH") == 0);
 };
 
 /**

src/plugins/auto/src/plugin.cpp

@@ -403,10 +403,14 @@ std::shared_ptr<ov::ICompiledModel> Plugin::compile_model_impl(const std::string
     std::unordered_map<std::string, ov::Any> multi_model_config;
     std::vector<DeviceInformation> meta_devices;
     auto priorities = load_config.get_property(ov::device::priorities);
-     if (priorities.empty() && !work_mode_auto)
+    if (priorities.empty() && !work_mode_auto)
         OPENVINO_THROW("KEY_MULTI_DEVICE_PRIORITIES key is not set for ", get_device_name());
-    if (priorities.find("AUTO") != std::string::npos || priorities.find("MULTI") != std::string::npos) {
-        OPENVINO_THROW("The device candidate list should not include the meta plugin for ", get_device_name());
+    std::vector<std::string> candidate_devices = m_plugin_config.parse_priorities_devices(priorities);
+    for (const auto& device : candidate_devices) {
+        if (device.find("AUTO:") != std::string::npos || device == "AUTO" ||
+            device.find("MULTI:") != std::string::npos || device == "MULTI") {
+            OPENVINO_THROW("The device candidate list should not include the meta plugin for ", get_device_name());
+        }
     }
     // check the configure and check if need to set PerfCounters configure to device
     // and set filter configure