Libvirt forgets to remove inactive vm when failed to start a defined vm. That may result in residual domain in driver->domains on such condition: during the process of starting a vm, undefine it, and qemu exit because of some exception. As we undefined the vm successfully, the vm->persistent was set to 0, we will always fail to undefine it until restart libvirtd. Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59(a)zte.com.cn&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index ba1dba5..581f02f 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -7185,6 +7185,8 @@ qemuDomainCreateWithFlags(virDomainPtr dom, unsigned int flags) endjob: qemuProcessEndJob(driver, vm); + if (ret < 0) + qemuDomainRemoveInactive(driver, vm); cleanup: virDomainObjEndAPI(&vm); -- 1.8.3.1