>>>import libvirt >>>con=libvirt.open('xen:///') >> libvirt.getVersion() 7002 >>>dom=con.defineXML('<domain type="xen"><name>rtiago_test2</name><clock offset="utc"/><vcpu>8</vcpu><on_poweroff>restart</on_poweroff><devices><disk device="disk" type="file"><source file="/images/SLC-4-x86.img"/><driver name="file"/><target bus="xen" dev="xvda1"/></disk><console tty="/dev/pts/2" type="pty"><source path="/dev/pts/2"/><target port="0"/></console></devices><on_crash>restart</on_crash><currentMemory>300000</currentMemory><memory>300000</memory><on_reboot>restart</on_reboot><os><kernel>/root/vmlinuz</kernel><initrd>/root/initrd.img</initrd><type>linux</type><root>/dev/xvda1 ro</root><cmdline>rtiago</cmdline></os></domain>') >>> dom.create() >>>0 >>> dom.destroy() >>> 0 >>> dom.create() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 287, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirt.libvirtError: Unknown failure Every call to create will raise the same exception, It only works if I do a new connection to the hypervisor. Is there an workaround??