[libvirt] Restore after restart libvirtd

[Diego Woitasen]

2009/10/30 Diego Woitasen <diego at woitasen.com.ar>:
> 2009/10/30 Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>:
>> Diego Woitasen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>  I 'm playing with save/restore domains. It's working, but if I
>>> restart libvirtd after 'save domain file' and then try to restore it I
>>> get:
>>>
>>> error: Failed to restore domain from /tmp/domain.out
>>> error: operation failed: domain 'domainname' is already defined with
>>> uuid 17c77406-b6e3-621a-1fae-420affce8f48
>>>
>>> If I move domainname.xml out of libvirt config. directory it works,
>>> but I think this should not be necessary.
>>
>> No, that's definitely not necessary, so something is wrong.  I just tried the
>> same thing on the head of libvirt git, and it worked just fine:
>>
>> # ./daemon/libvirtd --verbose --listen
>> # ./tools/virsh save <guest> /tmp/foo.save
>> # <kill libvirtd>
>> # ./daemon/libvirtd --verbose --listen
>> # ./tools/virsh restore /tmp/foo.save
>>
>> What version of libvirt are you using?  What are the exact steps you are taking
>> to try this out?
>>
>> --
>> Chris Lalancette
>>
>
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd --version
> /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd (libvirt) 0.7.2
> # /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd -d
> # virsh start MyDomain
> Domain MyDomain started
>
> # virsh save MyDomain /tmp/MyDomain.state
> Domain MyDomain saved to /tmp/MyDomain.state
>
> # killall libvirtd
> # /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd -d
> # virsh restore /tmp/MyDomain.state
> error: Failed to restore domain from /tmp/MyDomain.state
> error: operation failed: domain 'MyDomain' is already defined with
> uuid 88709ecf-c60f-f57f-385d-3f3bd09ba040
>
>
> --
> Diego Woitasen
>


I tried that steps with git snapshot and I got the same result. Restore failed.

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Diego Woitasen