[libvirt-users] libvirtd loses all of its data after restart

Hi, I'm having a problem with libvirtd (backend being kvm) losing its if I restart it with /etc/init.d/libvirtd restart. What I did was: Start libvirtd Connect to it using virsh Create a new storage pool with pool-create-as Create some volumes with vol-create-as Create some virtual machines with create Restart libvirtd using /etc/init.d/libvirtd restart Reconnect with virsh After this, all the previously defined pools, volumes and virtual machines would no longer be listed with pool-list or list, respectively. (list --all doesn't show anything either) The virtual machines I had started earlier are still running and I can still connect to them using vnc, but obviously, I can no longer manage them using libvirt. Why is this happening? Is libvirtd's data not supposed to be persistent? Is this maybe just an old bug? How can I get the still running virtual machines back under control? The system I'm using for this is a recently installed CentOS 5.4 with libvirt-0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 installed directly from its package repository. The only changes I made from the vanilla install was to install and configure some SSL certs in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf, as described on the libvirt website and to enable LIBVIRTD_ARGS="--listen" in /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd. Guido -- Too much multitasking isn't good for you.