[libvirt-users] QEMU 2.2.0 managedsave: Unknown savevm section type 5

[Michal Privoznik]

On 05.02.2015 01:54, Paul Apostolescu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running into issues restoring VMs during reboot for some of my XP
> VMs - the environment is QEMU 2.2.0, libvirt 1.2.12 on CentOS 6.5 with
> KVM and libvirt-guests is set to suspend at shutdown. The weird part is
> Windows 7 is restored properly from the managedsave however XP does not,
> doing a start from virsh shows this:
> 
> virsh # start xp-check
> error: Failed to start domain xp-check
> error: internal error: early end of file from monitor: possible problem:
> Unknown savevm section type 5
> 2015-02-04T23:55:37.117515Z qemu-kvm: load of migration failed: Invalid
> argument
> 
> (qemu-kvm is a link to qemu-system-x86_64).
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this ? 

Smells like qemu bug to me. The only way that this could be a libvirt
bug is that libvirt will generate a different qemu command line when the
guest is started and restored. Can you check that please?

Michal