Thanks, that makes sense. So it really seems to be the newer virtio drivers in the guest that triggers it - which is why the move to the HWE kernel
For test systems, I tried to grab a p8 but it failed to install three times in a row. Not sure what is broken atm, so at least for a while I'll rely on you doing the tests. I totally understand that it is hard (and not recommended by me) to do all the tests with the customer VMs. If you can do the tests still but have only a short time, just go as far as you can which means just to queens and skip the others in between. >From there we can still decide if it is helpful to check the interim versions. I'll continue trying to get a P8 up with this - maybe I can try one of the new P9 systems as well tomorrow. Just to check - Is the power system you have a P8/P9/P? ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783140 Title: KVM live migration fails Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project: New Status in linux package in Ubuntu: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Environment: 2 POWER8 with Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS as KVM hypervisor. 1 KVM guest with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Virtual disk for the guest is a qcow2 file on an NFS share, accessible from both hypervisors, so live migration is possible and works for all other guests (SLES, RHEL, Ubunutu 16.04), Live migratino of Ubuntu 18.04 guest fails on ppc, while the same test on an x86_64 environment suceeds. root@pkvm2:~# virsh migrate --persistent --live p8lnxtst4 qemu+ssh://pkvm1/system error: internal error: early end of file from monitor, possible problem: 2018-07-23T11:12:25.586385Z qemu-system-ppc64: VQ 0 size 0x100 Guest index 0x38aa inconsistent with Host index 0xa980: delta 0x8f2a 2018-07-23T11:12:25.586434Z qemu-system-ppc64: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'pci@800000020000000:01.0/virtio-net' 2018-07-23T11:12:25.587246Z qemu-system-ppc64: load of migration failed: Operation not permitted root@pkvm2:~# uname -a Linux pkvm2 4.4.0-130-generic #156-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 08:51:21 UTC 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1783140/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp