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Description of problem:

If a user or QMP client enter a bad syntax for the migrate command in QMP/HMP, then the migrate command will never succeed from that point on.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-1.5.3-30.el7


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a source and a target guest for migration. For example:

Source guest: qemu-kvm [...] -monitor stdio
Target guest: qemu-kvm [...] -monitor stdio -incoming tcp:0:4444

2. On the source guest's monitor, type a bad migrate command:

(qemu) migrate ;0:4444
migrate: Parameter 'uri' expects a valid migration protocol

3. Now correct the syntax and try again:

(qemu) migrate tcp:0:4444
migrate: There's a migration process in progress

Actual results:

The migrate command still fails and will always fail after the first failure.

Expected results:

The migrate command works with the correct syntax.

Fix posted upstream. Will post downstream as soon as it's applied.

This is uptream commit c950114286ea358a93ce632db0421945e1008395, should be a clean backport, but I missed the downstream deadline :(

Now, this one doesn't seem so serious to request an exception or block flag as libvirt would have to be buggy to emit a bad syntax...

Deferring to RHEL7.1.