Description of problem: Migrating a kvm based virtual machine with spice configured from a host with Fedora 17 and qemu-kvm-1.0.1-2 to Fedora 18 with qemu-kvm-1.2.2-2 fails with the following error in the log: qemu: warning: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram' load of migration failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-1.2.2-2.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a VM on fedora 17 with spice as video 2. Migrate to a host with fedora 18 Actual results: Migration will never complete and fail. Expected results: Migration will complete successfully Additional info:
Please note that this issue has been fixed in qemu 1.3 and a patch has been sent also for RHEL here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869981
Hi Vinzenz, thanks for the report and link to the commit. I verified that the referenced commit does fix migration from f17 to f18. However it breaks migration from pre-patch f18 to post-patch f18, which is a common case for people that use libvirt to save VMs on shutdown. I've posted upstream about it: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-02/msg00991.html
This is 'fixed' in rawhide, but that patch needs to be adapted to work on F18 as well: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qemu.git/tree/0105-qxl-Add-rom_size-compat-property-fix-migration-from-.patch
qemu-1.2.2-8.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.2.2-8.fc18
Package qemu-1.2.2-8.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing qemu-1.2.2-8.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-4711/qemu-1.2.2-8.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
qemu-1.2.2-9.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.2.2-9.fc18
qemu-1.2.2-10.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/qemu-1.2.2-10.fc18
qemu-1.2.2-10.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.