While changing the portgroup attribute causes incorrect behavior, this option is disabled for hot-plug. Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-7299 Signed-off-by: Adam Julis <ajulis(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index 4a3f4f657e..355f742535 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -3884,6 +3884,13 @@ qemuDomainChangeNet(virQEMUDriver *driver, goto cleanup; } + if (newdev->type == VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_NETWORK && + STRNEQ_NULLABLE(olddev->data.network.portgroup, newdev->data.network.portgroup)) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", + _("cannot modify network device portgroup attribute")); + goto cleanup; + } + /* allocate new actual device to compare to old - we will need to * free it if we fail for any reason */ -- 2.45.2