hi there i filed a bug for debian's libvrit-bin package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481619 in short: start 2 times the same domain and "virsh list" will not show it anymore, altough kvm process ist still there. tried also without emulator defined in the xml. same error. now i managed to compile from source (cvs, 2008-05-17). i get the error also with this version of libvirtd. - Thomas