After the upgrade to 0.7.5 from the preview repository, I've noticed that a restart of libvirt does not appear to "re-acquire" any guests already running on the system. # virsh list Compiled against library: libvir 0.7.5 Using library: libvir 0.7.5 Using API: QEMU 0.7.5 Running hypervisor: QEMU 0.12.1 # ps -ef | grep qemu-kvm qemu 1445 1 0 Jan17 ? 00:03:32 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1 -name imap [SNIP] qemu 1516 1 0 Jan17 ? 00:04:11 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -cpu qemu32 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp 1 -name mail [SNIP] qemu 21409 1 16 Jan16 ? 07:29:32 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.11 -enable-kvm -m 1640 -smp 1 -name imap2-cluster [SNIP] # virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 1 imap running 2 mail running Additionally, something doesn't appear to be getting either parsed right or set correctly when the guest is started as the /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname>.log file contains: "Option 'ipv4: Use 'on' or 'off'" "Failed to parse "yes" for "dummy.ipv4"