[libvirt] virsh hangs

[Garry Dolley]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:22:34AM -0700, Garry Dolley wrote:
> My system:
> 
> Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04
> 
> libvirt 0.6.4
> kvm 0.8.4
> qemu 0.10.0
> 
> I'm not sure what triggered this, I was working with several VMs,
> and then found that virsh decided to hang:
> 
> garry at kvr02:~$ virsh list
> Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
> <hang>
> 
> I have to ^C out of it.
> 
> If I 'force-stop' and then 'start' libvirt-bin:
> 
> garry at kvr02:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin force-stop
>  * Forcefully stopping libvirt management daemon libvirtd
>    ...done.
> garry at kvr02:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin start
>  * Starting libvirt management daemon libvirtd
>    ...done.
> 
> I can then get something:
> 
> garry at kvr02:~$ virsh list
> Connecting to uri: qemu:///system
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>   1 vm1                  running
>   4 s3-lax               running
>  14 freebsd-test         running
>  19 freebsd-2            running
> <hang>
> 
> But it hangs after that 4th one.  I must ^C it again.
> 
> If I do 'virsh list' again, it'll then show nothing (hangs like it
> does above).
> 
> Any suggestions?

>From playing with this, I'm led to believe libvirt "remembers" some
VM that I may have killed manually w/ 'kill'.  

Where does libvirt store what VMs it knows about across restarts?  I
think I may need to manually poke around there and take out the bad
VM...

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