I setup skip on startup and dest but it doensn't work. libvirt, qemu, kvm and nova are the same on both hosts root@op1:/var/log/nova# dpkg -l |egrep "libvirt|kvm|qemu|nova" ii ipxe-qemu 1.21.1+git-20220113.fbbdc3926-0ubuntu1 all PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu ii ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu4 all PXE boot firmware - Compat EFI ROM images for qemu ii libvirt-clients 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 amd64 Programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt-daemon 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 amd64 Virtualization daemon ii libvirt-daemon-config-network 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 all Libvirt daemon configuration files (default network) ii libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 all Libvirt daemon configuration files (default network filters) ii libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 amd64 Virtualization daemon QEMU connection driver ii libvirt-daemon-system 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 amd64 Libvirt daemon configuration files ii libvirt-daemon-system-systemd 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 all Libvirt daemon configuration files (systemd) ii libvirt0:amd64 8.0.0-1ubuntu7.10 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems ii nova-api-metadata 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - metadata API frontend ii nova-common 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - common files ii nova-compute 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - compute node base ii nova-compute-kvm 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - compute node (KVM) ii nova-compute-libvirt 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute - compute node libvirt support ii python3-libvirt 8.0.0-1build1 amd64 libvirt Python 3 bindings ii python3-nova 3:28.0.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all OpenStack Compute Python 3 libraries ii python3-novaclient 2:18.4.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0 all client library for OpenStack Compute API - 3.x ii qemu-block-extra 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.18 amd64 extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils ii qemu-system-common 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.18 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files) ii qemu-system-data 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.18 all QEMU full system emulation (data files) ii qemu-system-gui 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.18 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (user interface and audio support) ii qemu-system-x86 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.18 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) ii qemu-utils 1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.18 amd64 QEMU utilities op1 (the source) nova.conf https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/yzVrFppthp/ op4 (the destination) nova.conf https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/2zgWjpPJSS/ output from live-migration command: openstack server migrate --live-migration 069b59d4-2e53-4f52-ae43-cfa90ccc1e4a --debug https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/yY9m6Xfwqn/ op1 nova-compute.log https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/bVdd2ZnNZS/ op4 nova-compute.log https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/hMgdTxwjBj/ reading the op4 nova-compute.log, it seems to me that the comparison between VM capabilites and op4 fails, even op4 is a superset of the VM caps. here the virsh xmldump of the instance https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/gMHzpwdsFH/