I installed libvirt-daemon-6.6.0-903.1.x86_64 and 20 friends (and disabled my libvirtd-bug.J unit that runs "dmsetup info"). All guests start up OK. Thanks for the quick work backporting the upstream patch. In one case where I rebooted the host, with the guest not autostarted, and confirmed that /proc/devices did not include 254 dev-mapper, libvirtd could start the guest with no hassle, confirming that the original problem was fixed. 254 dev-mapper reappeared after the guest was started, which seems logical. The new Factory submission hasn't made it through the build farm and I'll await its appearance in Tumbleweed. Thanks again.