diff --git a/src/vmm/src/device_manager/persist.rs b/src/vmm/src/device_manager/persist.rs
index d951af089eb..bf2938189b4 100644
--- a/src/vmm/src/device_manager/persist.rs
+++ b/src/vmm/src/device_manager/persist.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ use crate::devices::virtio::vsock::persist::{
     VsockConstructorArgs, VsockState, VsockUdsConstructorArgs,
 };
 use crate::devices::virtio::vsock::{Vsock, VsockUnixBackend};
-use crate::logger::warn;
 use crate::mmds::data_store::MmdsVersion;
 use crate::resources::VmResources;
 use crate::snapshot::Persist;
@@ -256,20 +255,17 @@ impl<'a> Persist<'a> for MMIODeviceManager {
                 // Both virtio-block and vhost-user-block share same device type.
                 VirtioDeviceType::Block => {
                     let block = locked_device.as_mut_any().downcast_mut::<Block>().unwrap();
-                    if block.is_vhost_user() {
-                        warn!(
-                            "Skipping vhost-user-block device. VhostUserBlock does not support \
-                             snapshotting yet"
-                        );
-                    } else {
-                        let device_state = block.save();
-                        states.block_devices.push(VirtioDeviceState {
-                            device_id,
-                            device_state,
-                            transport_state,
-                            device_info,
-                        });
-                    }
+                    assert!(
+                        !block.is_vhost_user(),
+                        "vhost-user-block does not support snapshotting yet"
+                    );
+                    let device_state = block.save();
+                    states.block_devices.push(VirtioDeviceState {
+                        device_id,
+                        device_state,
+                        transport_state,
+                        device_info,
+                    });
                 }
                 VirtioDeviceType::Net => {
                     let net = locked_device.as_mut_any().downcast_mut::<Net>().unwrap();
diff --git a/src/vmm/src/lib.rs b/src/vmm/src/lib.rs
index 020d941012e..a2a50010ae0 100644
--- a/src/vmm/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/vmm/src/lib.rs
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ use crate::devices::virtio::balloon::{
 };
 use crate::devices::virtio::block::BlockError;
 use crate::devices::virtio::block::device::Block;
-use crate::devices::virtio::device::VirtioDeviceType;
+use crate::devices::virtio::device::{VirtioDevice, VirtioDeviceType};
 use crate::devices::virtio::mem::device::VirtioMem;
 use crate::devices::virtio::mem::{VIRTIO_MEM_DEV_ID, VirtioMemError, VirtioMemStatus};
 use crate::devices::virtio::net::Net;
@@ -449,6 +449,32 @@ impl Vmm {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Check if the VM has any devices without snapshot support
+    pub fn check_unsnapshottable_devices(&self) -> Result<(), MicrovmStateError> {
+        let mut tuples = Vec::new();
+        self.device_manager
+            .for_each_virtio_device(|device_type, device| {
+                if let VirtioDeviceType::Block = device_type
+                    && let Some(b) = device.as_any().downcast_ref::<Block>()
+                    && b.is_vhost_user()
+                {
+                    tuples.push(("vhost-user-block", b.id().to_owned()));
+                }
+            });
+        if tuples.is_empty() {
+            Ok(())
+        } else {
+            let msg = tuples
+                .iter()
+                .map(|(t, id)| format!("{t}(id: {id})"))
+                .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+                .join(",");
+            Err(MicrovmStateError::NotAllowed(format!(
+                "Devices without snapshot support are present: {msg}"
+            )))
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Starts the microVM vcpus.
     ///
     /// # Errors
@@ -555,7 +581,8 @@ impl Vmm {
 
     /// Saves the state of a paused Microvm.
     pub fn save_state(&mut self, vm_info: &VmInfo) -> Result<MicrovmState, MicrovmStateError> {
-        use self::MicrovmStateError::SaveVmState;
+        self.check_unsnapshottable_devices()?;
+
         // We need to save device state before saving KVM state.
         // Some devices, (at the time of writing this comment block device with async engine)
         // might modify the VirtIO transport and send an interrupt to the guest. If we save KVM
@@ -567,13 +594,17 @@ impl Vmm {
         let vm_state = {
             #[cfg(target_arch = "x86_64")]
             {
-                self.vm.save_state().map_err(SaveVmState)?
+                self.vm
+                    .save_state()
+                    .map_err(MicrovmStateError::SaveVmState)?
             }
             #[cfg(target_arch = "aarch64")]
             {
                 let mpidrs = construct_kvm_mpidrs(&vcpu_states);
 
-                self.vm.save_state(&mpidrs).map_err(SaveVmState)?
+                self.vm
+                    .save_state(&mpidrs)
+                    .map_err(MicrovmStateError::SaveVmState)?
             }
         };
 
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/functional/test_drive_vhost_user.py b/tests/integration_tests/functional/test_drive_vhost_user.py
index 07fcafb715e..ad1acdec72e 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests/functional/test_drive_vhost_user.py
+++ b/tests/integration_tests/functional/test_drive_vhost_user.py
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ def _check_drives(test_microvm, assert_dict, keys_array):
 def test_vhost_user_block(uvm_vhost_user_booted_ro):
     """
     This test simply tries to boot a VM with
-    vhost-user-block as a root device.
+    vhost-user-block as a root device and then
+    tries to snapshot it.
     """
 
     vm = uvm_vhost_user_booted_ro
@@ -105,6 +106,14 @@ def test_vhost_user_block(uvm_vhost_user_booted_ro):
     _check_drives(vm, assert_dict, assert_dict.keys())
     vhost_user_block_metrics.validate(vm)
 
+    with pytest.raises(
+        RuntimeError,
+        match=r"Devices without snapshot support are present: vhost-user-block\(id: rootfs\)",
+    ):
+        vm.api.snapshot_create.put(
+            mem_file_path="memfile", snapshot_path="statefile", snapshot_type="Full"
+        )
+
 
 def test_vhost_user_block_read_write(uvm_vhost_user_booted_rw):
     """