With the tip of DanB I am currently using the inactive XML storage quite satisfied with the concept of first undefining than starting. But there is still a bug. The inactive XML adds a <bootloader /> tag. Now that is (in my perspective) not a bug, but it it is that libvirt expects a config. In my personal believes the tag shouldn't be there if there is no config; or libvirt should not libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Error creating domain: Had a bootloader specified, but no disks are bootable') error: Failed to create domain from /mnt/netapp/users/klant2/mono/index.xml I just checked with the last git version and the bug still exists... I hope someone can look into this asap. It is a blocker for development. Stefan