The 27/07/11, Laine Stump wrote:
If you pause ("virsh suspend") the guest before the save, can you then successfully start the domain (it should "start" in a paused state, and when the virsh commandline returns to the prompt, you can resume it with "virsh resume".) If this is the case, it could be a race condition within qemu.
This is why I like help from other: I would never had the idea to do this check on my own. Unfortunately, this didn't help: root@homer> uptime 11:05:34 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 root@homer> virsh # suspend homer Domain homer suspended virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 21 homer paused virsh # managedsave homer Domain homer state saved by libvirt virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------- virsh # start homer Domain homer started virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------- 22 homer paused virsh # resume homer Domain homer resumed virsh # root@homer> uptime 11:06:51 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 root@homer> Thank you. -- Nicolas Sebrecht