libvirt migration fail with "Attempt to migrate guest to the same host"

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2

Situation

libvirt printing the following error:

"error: internal error: Attempt to migrate guest to the same host".

An example would be:

kvm01:~ # virsh --connect=qemu:///system  migrate --live --tunnelled --p2p VM01 qemu+ssh://kvm02/system
error: internal error: Attempt to migrate guest to the same host kvm02

Resolution

Check that both nodes have unique UUID by running:

virsh sysinfo | grep uuid ; host_uuid could be used in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf

Make sure that system resolve the hostname correctly. Check /etc/hosts and DNS server for duplicated records.

Cause

The problem could be caused by different issues. For example:

Both nodes have the same UUID.
DNS resolution problem.

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