Hi, versions 2.5 and 2.11 are quite old (though version 2.10 fixed the bug mentioned in the Red Hat BZ, so I think this might be a different bug.)
It's not clear at what step this is failing or where you are seeing the error message, so: 1. What is your full command line for QEMU? 2. Do you see this error message when migrating? If so, what does the destination QEMU command line look like? 3. Does the problem reproduce on a currently-supported upstream QEMU? (4.1.1, 4.2.0) ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: qemu Assignee: (unassigned) => John Snow (jnsnow) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1816805 Title: Cannot create cdrom device with open tray and cache option Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: When trying to create cdrom device with open tray and either of "cache" or "discard" options specified, I get the following error: qemu-system-x86_64: -drive if=none,id=drive- ide0-0-0,readonly=on,cache=writeback,discard=unmap,throttling.iops- total=900: Must specify either driver or file This bug essentially forbids live migration of VMs with open cdrom trays. I was able to find the same bug at RedHat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1338638 The bug was encountered in versions 2.5 and 2.11. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1816805/+subscriptions