I am trying to bring up lxc's using Libvirt JAVA API. I do the following:

conn = Connect("lxc:\\\")

xml_config = "<domain> .... <\domain>"

dom = conn.domainCreateXML(xml_config, 0) 

dom.create()

Using the above code, I am able to start a domain but the domain is not visible within the "lxc" list, i.e

when I use the command "lxc-ls --fancy", the domain that was created cannot be viewed, although, when I use the function conn.listDomains(), I can view the domain. 

As a work-around if I use the "lxc-create -t <OS> -n <name>" command followed by "conn.domainDefineXML(xml_config)", I can view the domain within "lxc-ls --fancy"

Any one has observed this problem earlier and is there a way I can create the domain without using "lxc-create ..." command and still list the domain on the "lxc-ls --fancy" list?

Thank you,

Anu