Re: [libvirt] strange stale qemu processes after domain shutdown

That does not matter. We keep state XML for all running domains, regardless if they are persistent or transient. But since the daemon does not restart, I suspect we have a bug somewhere. BTW: you can check if the state XML for domain still exists. We pass -name $domname to qemu, and the state XML should then be: /var/run/libvirt/qemu/$domname.xml Also, there is PID of the qemu process - can you check if they match?