There's nothing to compress if the requested snapshot memory format is set to 'raw' explicitly. After commit 9e14689ea libvirt would try to run /sbin/raw to process them emory stream if the qemu.conf option snapshot_image_format is set. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1402726 --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 6b177e9..4ef1860 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -3300,6 +3300,9 @@ qemuGetCompressionProgram(const char *imageFormat, if ((ret = qemuSaveCompressionTypeFromString(imageFormat)) < 0) goto error; + if (ret == QEMU_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW) + return QEMU_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW; + if (!(*compresspath = virFindFileInPath(imageFormat))) goto error;