hi, - host: rhel6 - I created a guest rmdev2 (centos6) - undefined it - again created rmdev2 guest (centos6) now I get: [root@rmdev1 var]# virsh -c qemu:///system Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit virsh # list --all Id Name State ---------------------------------- - rmdev2 shut off virsh # start rmdev2 error: Failed to start domain rmdev2 error: operation failed: cannot restore domain 'rmdev2' uuid 9e9ea633-9691-f3d6-64da-ae9c8b3e5810 from a file which belongs to domain 'rmdev2' uuid 4f425d14-335b-0adc-11af-06e503c6b54d why ? it seems the ghost of the old guest is causing problems... all the files used by the first guest are deleted... thanks. /sergio _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

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'.