On 09.05.2018 06:09, R wrote: [...] > I am aware about the stability issues of using qemu-kvm directly > instead of libvirt but I need a particular network devices > configuration with specific tap devices (-netdev > tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,fd=8 8<>/dev/tap2") so, unless I can do this > with libvirt, I need a way to restore a saved VM with qemu-kvm > directly. Have you already tried the "user" interface type in the XML for libvirt? That should work without a tap device: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsNICSSlirp HTH, Thomas