A bug in qemuProcessStartWithMemoryState caused that we would start qemu with '-loadvm SNAP' and '-incoming defer' together. qemu doesn't expect that and crashes on an assertion failure [1]. [1]: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-16782 Fixes: 8a88d3e5860881f430e528d3e5e8d6455ded4d1d Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17841 Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index f32e82bbd1..fc05b4b24f 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -8196,6 +8196,7 @@ qemuProcessStartWithMemoryState(virConnectPtr conn, VIR_AUTOCLOSE intermediatefd = -1; g_autoptr(virCommand) cmd = NULL; g_autofree char *errbuf = NULL; + const char *migrateFrom = NULL; int rc = 0; if (data) { @@ -8207,6 +8208,8 @@ qemuProcessStartWithMemoryState(virConnectPtr conn, &errbuf, &cmd) < 0) { return -1; } + + migrateFrom = "stdio"; } /* No cookie means libvirt which saved the domain was too old to mess up @@ -8220,7 +8223,7 @@ qemuProcessStartWithMemoryState(virConnectPtr conn, priv->disableSlirp = true; if (qemuProcessStart(conn, driver, vm, cookie ? cookie->cpu : NULL, - asyncJob, "stdio", *fd, path, snapshot, + asyncJob, migrateFrom, *fd, path, snapshot, VIR_NETDEV_VPORT_PROFILE_OP_RESTORE, start_flags) == 0) *started = true; -- 2.43.0