https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197600 So, libvirt uses pid file to track pid of started qemus. Whenever a domain is started, its pid is put into corresponding pid file. The pid file path is generated based on domain name and stored into domain object internals. However, it's not stored in the status XML and therefore lost on daemon restarts. Hence, later, when domain is being shut down, the daemon does not know which pid file to unlink, and the correct pid file is left behind. To avoid this, lets generate the pid file path again in qemuProcessReconnect(). Reported-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index 7ce6115..e77616a 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -3762,6 +3762,13 @@ qemuProcessReconnect(void *opaque) cfg = virQEMUDriverGetConfig(driver); priv = obj->privateData; + /* XXX If we ever gonna change pid file pattern, come up with + * some intelligence here to deal with old paths. */ + if (!(priv->pidfile = virPidFileBuildPath(cfg->stateDir, obj->def->name))) { + virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("Failed to build pidfile path.")); + goto killvm; + } + if (qemuDomainObjBeginJob(driver, obj, QEMU_JOB_MODIFY) < 0) goto killvm; -- 2.0.5