On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:57, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
On 09/26/2011 06:52 AM, David Cohen wrote:
Hi, See if you have a /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/your_guest_name.save That might be the ghost of the old guest preventing startup.
Yes, that's exactly what I suspect. However, directly messing with files under /var/lib/libvirt/... is not recommended; rather, you should go through public libvirt interfaces; in this case, 'virsh managedsave-remove your_guest_name'.
aha, there is ! # ls /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save rmdev2.save # virsh managedsave-remove rmdev2 Removed managedsave image for domain rmdev2 # virsh start rmdev2 Domain rmdev2 started it seems an easy trap, because the answer of "how do I remove a vm" is just "undefine vm_name", everytime, everywhere, and however google was not helping much... and I didn't know rhel6 is old by now # rpm -q libvirt libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64 thanks eric and david !