[libvirt-users] virsh cannot list broken guest.

Magicloud Magiclouds
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:53:38 -0000

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds
<magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> ?I am starting to learn using libvirt with kvm on CentOS 6.
> ?Just used this command to start a guest:
> virt-install -ntest -r1024 --vcpus=1
> -c/var/lib/libvirt/images/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso
> --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel6 --disk vol=kvmguests/test --vnc -v
> --virt-type=kvm --check-cpu --prompt --arch=x86_64
> ?Then I found out that I misconfigured vnc. And I do not know how to
> gracefully stop qemu. So I killed it.
> ?Then with the command, I got:
> ERROR ? ?Guest name 'test' is already in use.
> What is the name of your virtual machine?
> ?But at this time, there is nothing listed in virsh:
> Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
>
> Type: ?'help' for help with commands
> ? ? ? 'quit' to quit
>
> virsh # list
> ?Id Name ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? State
> ----------------------------------
>
> virsh # connect qemu:///system
>
> virsh # list
> ?Id Name ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? State
> ----------------------------------
>
> virsh #
>
> ?What should I do?
> --
> ???????
> ???????
>

Seems like it is not only broken guests.
I just installed another one. And successful. But still, nothing
listed in virsh.

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