The comment in the code says most of it, but when the destination hostname resolution is screwed up, print a proper error instead of the very unhelpful "unknown error". Note that I'm not overly fond of the wording in the error message, so I'm open to suggestions. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index d37b184..02bb5cb 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -6288,6 +6288,22 @@ qemudDomainMigratePrepare2 (virConnectPtr dconn, goto cleanup; } + /* Remember that we are running on the destination. The hostname that + * we resolve here will be used on the source machine in the "migrate" + * monitor command. Because of that, localhost is almost always the + * wrong thing. Adding this check explicitly breaks localhost + * migration, but only for those machines that have improperly + * configured hostname resolution. + */ + if (STREQ(hostname, "localhost")) { + VIR_FREE(hostname); + qemudReportError(dconn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG, "%s", + _("Could not resolve destination hostname; " + "either fix destination to resolve hostname, " + "or use the optional URI migration parameter")); + goto cleanup; + } + /* XXX this really should have been a properly well-formed * URI, but we can't add in tcp:// now without breaking * compatability with old targets. We at least make the -- 1.6.0.6