diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_blockjob.c b/src/qemu/qemu_blockjob.c
index 0039bc0e9f..9b78733c53 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_blockjob.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_blockjob.c
@@ -1101,7 +1101,8 @@ qemuBlockJobProcessEventCompletedCommitBitmaps(virDomainObjPtr vm,
     g_autoptr(virJSONValue) actions = NULL;
     bool active = job->type == QEMU_BLOCKJOB_TYPE_ACTIVE_COMMIT;
 
-    if (!virQEMUCapsGet(priv->qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_BLOCKDEV_REOPEN))
+    if (!active &&
+        !virQEMUCapsGet(priv->qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_BLOCKDEV_REOPEN))
         return 0;
 
     if (!(blockNamedNodeData = qemuBlockGetNamedNodeData(vm, asyncJob)))
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index d9c5f21f21..69fa2433f9 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -17387,11 +17387,7 @@ qemuDomainBlockPivot(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
         break;
 
     case QEMU_BLOCKJOB_TYPE_ACTIVE_COMMIT:
-        /* we technically don't need reopen here, but we couldn't prepare
-         * the bitmaps if it wasn't present thus must skip this */
-        if (blockdev &&
-            virQEMUCapsGet(priv->qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_BLOCKDEV_REOPEN)) {
-
+        if (blockdev) {
             actions = virJSONValueNewArray();
 
             if (qemuMonitorTransactionBitmapAdd(actions,