I'm not entirely sure why Libvirt is checking to see if the target file exists for LVM but it is a problem. Empty volume groups do not appear in /dev. When libvirt starts these pools then fail to autostart because their path does not exist. This is not useful, this is the patch we are running to resolve this issue. --- src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c index 42dec05ba0..2c60719b8c 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c @@ -641,11 +641,9 @@ virStorageBackendLogicalCheckPool(virStoragePoolObjPtr pool, { virStoragePoolDefPtr def = virStoragePoolObjGetDef(pool); - /* If we can find the target.path as well as ensure that the - * pool's def source - */ - *isActive = virFileExists(def->target.path) && - virStorageBackendLogicalMatchPoolSource(pool); + /* Ensure that the pool's def source is correct */ + *isActive = virStorageBackendLogicalMatchPoolSource(pool); + return 0; } -- 2.24.1