id = 681
title = "Error saving memory to disk"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2021-10-20T09:49:57.997Z"
closed_at = "2023-08-14T19:41:29.809Z"
labels = ["Migration", "spice"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/681"
host-os = "Manjaro"
host-arch = "x86_64"
qemu-version = "6.1.0"
guest-os = "Manjaro"
guest-arch = "x86_64"
description = """When trying to save the state of the machine using virt-manager (3.2.0) it fails with this error:

Error saving domain: operation failed: domain save job: unexpectedly failed
```bash
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/vmmenu.py", line 182, in cb
    vm.save(meter=asyncjob.get_meter())
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, in newfn
    ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1377, in save
    self._backend.managedSave(0)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1780, in managedSave
    raise libvirtError('virDomainManagedSave() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: operation failed: domain save job: unexpectedly failed
```"""
reproduce = """1. setup a virtual machine
2. setup a linux distro
3. try to save the memory to disk"""
additional = """Will be provided when needed"""