Description of problem: When the target VM is started with "-incoming 'exec:nc -l 4444'" and the migration process is started with "migrate tcp:0:4444" on the source, the migration process will fail. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kvm-83-251.el5 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the target VM with: # qemu-kvm [...] -incoming 'exec:nc -l 4444' 2. Start the source machine and start the migration process with: (qemu) migrate tcp:0:4444 Actual results: The migration will fail with the following message on the target VM's terminal: "load of migration failed". Expected results: The migration process works. Additional info: This works on upstream and RHEL6.3.