Older libvirt versions send persistent XML in a migration cookie even when VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST flag is not used, but current libvirt properly fails if the cookie contains unexpected flags. Thus migration from old libvirt fails with internal error: Unsupported migration cookie feature persistent unless VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST flag is set. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320500 Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c b/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c index 0b1770b..463e624 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c @@ -6183,8 +6183,9 @@ qemuMigrationFinish(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, cookie_flags = QEMU_MIGRATION_COOKIE_NETWORK | QEMU_MIGRATION_COOKIE_STATS | QEMU_MIGRATION_COOKIE_NBD; - if (flags & VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST) - cookie_flags |= QEMU_MIGRATION_COOKIE_PERSISTENT; + /* Some older versions of libvirt always send persistent XML in the cookie + * even though VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST was not used. */ + cookie_flags |= QEMU_MIGRATION_COOKIE_PERSISTENT; if (!(mig = qemuMigrationEatCookie(driver, vm, cookiein, cookieinlen, cookie_flags))) -- 2.9.2