VM won't do autostart - help needed

[Yuri Weinstein]

Thanks Michal!

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On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:23 AM Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 2/16/20 10:20 PM, Yuri Weinstein wrote:
> > I used to have QEMU/KVM and Virtual Machine Manager running on ubuntu
> > 16.04 and used to start my VM from crontab as:
> >
> > @reboot sleep 30 && virsh start WINDOWS10
>
> Libvirt has an autostart feature, which can start your domain on the
> first time libvirtd is started (i.e. during boot).
>
> virsh autostart WINDOWS10
>
> >
> > After upgrading to ubuntu 18.04 this stopped working, with error:
> >
> > error: failed to get domain 'WINDOWS10'
> > error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'WINDOWS10'
> >
> > Running command as "virsh start WINDOWS10" works fine.
> >
>
> This is probably because cron doesn't run the command as root and hence
> the virsh is no longer connecting to 'qemu:///system' but
> 'qemu:///session'. Change it to:
>
> virsh -c qemu:///system start WINDOWS10
>

I managed to force austart via Startup App as:
sh -c "sleep 30 && /usr/bin/virsh start WINDOWS10"

See your point about using root and/or 'qemu:///system' and will try it.


>
> But I suggest using the autostart feature instead.
>
>
This is the main issue - it does not work! :(  Tried via command line and UI
You can see =>
Autostart:      enable

How can this be fixed and/or troubleshooted?



> > I am trying to use Virtual Machine Manager to autostart my VM and it
> > simply does not work.
> >
> > Here is more info on the VM:
> >
> > virsh dominfo WINDOWS10
> > Id:             2
> > Name:           WINDOWS10
> > UUID:           32faf348-f54e-445a-90cc-e64d28d9d396
> > OS Type:        hvm
> > State:          running
> > CPU(s):         4
> > CPU time:       4846.0s
> > Max memory:     8192000 KiB
> > Used memory:    8192000 KiB
> > Persistent:     yes
> > Autostart:      enable
> > Managed save:   no
> > Security model: apparmor
> > Security DOI:   0
> > Security label: libvirt-32faf348-f54e-445a-90cc-e64d28d9d396 (enforcing)
> >
> > Sounds like a bug to me.
> > Any help appreciated.
>
> Michal
>
>
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