Hi, I think there is a bug when running virsh domxml-to-native qemu-argv with VM with long name, it getting cut - .. -name guest=l-dev-vrt-140-022-RH-7.0-Tal,debug-threads=on -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-l-dev-vrt-140-022-RH/master-key.aes -machine pc-i440fx-2.12,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -m 8192 -realtime mlock=off -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid cb48f75c-40f6-432d-964b-906ee0bdcf48 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain--1-l-dev-vrt-140-022-RH/monitor.sock,server,nowait .. -name is ok, but -object and -chardev are cut, which cause QEMU to file on - qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/do main--1-l-dev-vrt-140-022-RH/monitor.sock,server,nowait: Failed to bind socket to /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/doma in--1-l-dev-vrt-140-022-RH/monitor.sock: No such file or directory Libvirt version is 3.9.0, here is the full domain XML - <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'> <name>l-dev-vrt-140-022-RH-7.0-Tal</name> <uuid>cb48f75c-40f6-432d-964b-906ee0bdcf48</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.12'>hvm</type> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <pae/> </features> <clock offset='utc'/> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/> <source file='/images/l-dev-vrt-140-022/l-dev-vrt-140-022.img'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:50:56:18:8c:16'/> <source bridge='br0:'/> <model type='e1000'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes'> <listen type='address'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> Thanks, Tal