Issue #1962 describes automatic correlation into a hybrid VM, while the retained-link regression only exercises a manual merge. Exercise the hostname link selector through source snapshot reconstruction and next-poll memory resolution, preserving standalone host identity, cross-instance VMID isolation and ambiguous-name refusal. This narrows the acceptance boundary without changing matching behaviour or claiming installed recovery.
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