diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 75f1f1e1ee..0ca1487abc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Apr  1 10:54:22 BST 2009 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/qemu-driver.c: Fix URI check in migration
+
 Wed Apr  1 10:50:22 BST 2009 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
 
 	Add a tree view of node devices
diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
index 8408d9731f..fb857ee839 100644
--- a/src/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
@@ -4629,7 +4629,7 @@ qemudDomainMigratePrepare2 (virConnectPtr dconn,
          * URI when passing it to the qemu monitor, so bad
          * characters in hostname part don't matter.
          */
-        if (!STREQLEN (uri_in, "tcp:", 6)) {
+        if (!STRPREFIX (uri_in, "tcp:")) {
             qemudReportError (dconn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG,
                   "%s", _("only tcp URIs are supported for KVM migrations"));
             goto cleanup;