Live migration of guest between 7.9 KVM host and 8.6 host failed with an error "does not support machine type"

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Issue

  • Live migration of guest to RHEL host 8.6 from RHEL 7.x is failing with below error:
"libvirt: QEMU Driver error : unsupported configuration: Emulator '/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm' does not support machine type 'rhel6.6.0'"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x.

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