Re: [libvirt-users] virsh dom state

On 3/23/2015 12:49 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 23.03.2015 16:02, Fiorenza Meini wrote: >> Hi there, >> I'm running KVM under Openstack . >> >> When I give virsh list command, I see some VM in NON persistent state. >> What does it mean? How can I move it to a persisten state ? > You can do that by running: > > virsh dumpxml $dom > dom.xml && virsh define dom.xml You want `virsh dumpxml --security-info $dom`, not just `virsh dumpxml`. There is a *critical* difference in that the former will preserve any passwords you have set (like say, VNC) whereas the latter will not. This is sadly not very obvious.