[libvirt-users] libvirt restarting vms on restart?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:45:13AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Recent versions of libvirt seem to have taken to starting new copies of 
> my vms when they restart.
> 
> Any vm marked to start when libvirt is started is started, even if it is 
> already running, which leads to multiple running vms trying to use the 
> same disk image.
> 
> I think this probably started with the upgrade from 0.7.4 to 0.7.5 but I 
> can't be entirely sure as I only realised yesterday that I had somehow 
> managed to get multiple instances of a VM running. It definitely 
> happened this morning when the updated from 0.7.5.-1 to 0.7.5-3 in the 
> F12 virt-preview repo caused a restart.

It sounds like you are probably hitting this bug

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550400

the trouble is I can't reproduce it myself. When you manually start a
VM, can you check whether the /var/run/libvirt/qemu/$GUEST.xml file
contains the monitor path info.

Daniel
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