Thanks a lot. This did the trick. On 15 May 2011 18:19, Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:

2011/5/15 Abhishek Gupta <abhishekgupta.iitd@gmail.com>:

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Hello,

I am using python bindings of libvirt. When I use the function listDomainsID( ) it successfully returns me the list of the ids of my current virtual machines, but when I call function listDefinedDomains( ) it returns me an empty list.

That's correct. In your case all known VMs are running.

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Is this some kind of bug because as per my understanding listDefinedDomains should return a superset of vm's as returned by listDefinedDomains().

listDefinedDomains doesn't return a superset, it just returns the list of known but non-running VMs, it doesn't return all known VMs. To get the list of all known VMs you need to combine the lists returned by listDomainsID and listDefinedDomains.

Matthias