The migration would fail if the checks in virDomainDefPostParseMemory() fail after ABI update. The ABI update normally done during the guest start and not during define. If someone is using --persistent with the virsh migrate it should be treated equivalent to domain define and not start. The furture restart would/should anyway do the ABI updates and flag correct errors. Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c b/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c index 51e7125..39e259a 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_migration.c @@ -1284,8 +1284,7 @@ qemuMigrationCookieXMLParse(qemuMigrationCookiePtr mig, } mig->persistent = virDomainDefParseNode(doc, nodes[0], caps, driver->xmlopt, - VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE | - VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE); + VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE); if (!mig->persistent) { /* virDomainDefParseNode already reported * an error for us */