Comment 2 for bug 1946752

So while we do indeed start post_copy unconditionally regardless of instance state, and this is not great for PAUSED instances, the switch to post_copy is guarded by a try/except [1] that should prevent post_copy failure from failing the migration. So I'm wondering where in the code the ERROR that you provided in your original description came from. Would you mind including the full traceback in this bug, or better yet, attaching the whole nova-compute.log?

Thanks!

[1] https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/src/branch/stable/ussuri/nova/virt/libvirt/migration.py#L588-L593