We already calculated the guest area, which is what is subject to minimum size requirements, a few lines earlier. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c index f14a15d3b4..4d007bc4a0 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c @@ -5363,7 +5363,7 @@ qemuDomainNVDimmAlignSizePseries(virDomainMemoryDefPtr mem) /* Align down guest_area. 256MiB is the minimum size. Error * out if target_size is smaller than 256MiB + label_size, * since aligning it up will cause QEMU errors. */ - if (mem->size < (ppc64AlignSize + mem->labelsize)) { + if (guestArea < ppc64AlignSize) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s", _("minimum target size for the NVDIMM " "must be 256MB plus the label size")); -- 2.26.2