So here¹s the thing: I have an environment running without tunneling. I can move a modestly sized (3.2GB disk space, 2GB RAM) VM back and forth between two systems all day long, using peer-peer migration, with these flags set: VIR_MIGRATE_UNDEFINE_SOURCE VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_INC By invoking libvirt_domain_migrate_to_uri2() in libvirt-php via apache. We are not using shared storage, but as stated, the function invocations and XML appear to be correct insofar as non-tunneled migrations are successful. As soon as I enable tunneling by adding the VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED to the above options, the migration fails with this debug message: qemuMigrationUpdateJobStatus:1788 : operation failed: migration job: unexpectedly failed Not very helpful. This is with no other changes to the invoking code. I have been _trying_ to track down the source of the failure, and in so doing I have increased the arbitrary timeout value in qemu_domain.c from 30 to 100 seconds. The copy of the disk is successful; nabbing a copy and booting it in an alternate VM works just fine, so I have every reason to believe that the disk is being migrated properly. That said, what I need is to understand how to trace the monitoring thread over on the destination, to understand where and why it is returning an error to the source host. The debug output is silent on finding and error and sending it back to the source system. I¹ve been instrumenting the calls in src/qemu, but haven¹t located the right code. A pointer to where I should be looking would be helpful. I can provide much more detail from tracing (that I have had to add to the code) on the source side, but the destination side log entries get to virStreamFinish() and then the thread exits while the sender gets an error back. Ostensibly from another thread. The migration gets cancelled for no obvious reason, from no obvious source. Here¹s the kicker: this exact same scenario using a smaller VM (1.5GB disk, 2GB RAM) succeeds. The issue appears to be related to VM size and timeout values? Again, if a developer could provide a pointer to how I might trace the monitoring thread on the destination side, that¹d be great. Thanks in advance. Gary