From: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com> When saving the domain status in the path of the virDomainObjSave function, Libvirtd will omit the private data if the format interface is not provided. When the Libvirtd service is starting up and the driver has not yet been initialized, this behavior is justified. However, when the service is shutting down, the driver is being finalized and the interface is being released, a migration job or another job may call the qemuDomainSaveStatus and save the domain status at the same time. For the latter, this behavior causes the XML to be saved without private information (such as monitor path and qemuCaps), which is required for the Libvirtd service to manage a VM during startup. As a result, after restarting the Libvirtd service, a running VM that is being migrated previously might escape management. Thus, when formatting the status XML for a running virtual machine, we need to presume that the "privateData.format" interface is present. Add a thorough check in the virDomainObjSave path to make sure that private data in the status XML file always exists for the running VM so that we won't lose it after restart the Libvirtd service. Please review, thanks. Yong Hyman Huang (1): domain_conf: Do not omit private data when formatting the status XML src/conf/domain_conf.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 2.27.0