[libvirt-users] new guest with same name as undefined one

[David Cohen]

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.

-- 
David Cohen

On Sunday 25 September 2011 23:45:01 Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
> hi,
> 
> - host: rhel6
> - I created a guest rmdev2 (centos6)
> - undefined it
> - again created rmdev2 guest (centos6)
> 
> now I get:
> 
> 
> [root at 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
> 
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