Now I wanna use libvirt api to control the life cycle of vm01.

It went on well with shutdown and reboot, but how to start it became a problem.

 

I was intended to get the virDomainPtr by using virDomainLookupByName api, and then start it using virDomainCreate api.

But it turns out that virDomainLookupByName api cannot return a virDomainPtr for a defined but not running domain.

 

That's my situation, what do you suggest I do now?

Thanks in advance.