libvirt users - Dec 2014 - "virsh list" does not show anything after reboot [newbie]

Hi, libvirt users and gurus,

I am a newbie to visualization, hope this question is not too silly,
please bear with me.

I had installed three guest on Fedora 21 with the virt-install tool, by:

virt-install --name=f21_x86_64_guest
--file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/guest.qcow2 --cdrom
/workStorage/work/down/f21/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
--ram=2048
virt-install --name=f21_x86_64_guest1
--file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/guest.qcow2 --cdrom
/workStorage/work/down/f21/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
--ram=2048 --force
virt-install --name=f21_x86_64_guest2
--file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/guest.qcow2 --cdrom
/workStorage/work/down/f21/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso
--ram=2048 --force


When runing "virsh list" I see these three guests as running.

Now, I rebooted the machine, and "virsh list" does not show anything.
It turned out that
running "systemctl status libvirtd" showed some error (about some NFS
path which was not found),
and once I fixed that, I restarted the libvirtd, and this time running
"systemctl status libvirtd"
showed that it is running OK. Yet, runnig "virsh list" does not show
anything

Any ideas ? what I should do to run one of these guest I created
before booting the machine ?

Regards,
Kevin

On 12/23/2014 09:22 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> When runing "virsh list" I see these three guests as running.
> 
> Now, I rebooted the machine, and "virsh list" does not show
anything.
> It turned out that
> running "systemctl status libvirtd" showed some error (about some
NFS
> path which was not found),
> and once I fixed that, I restarted the libvirtd, and this time running
> "systemctl status libvirtd"
> showed that it is running OK. Yet, runnig "virsh list" does not
show anything
Does 'virsh list --all' show anything?  If so, you have hit a state
where your guests are not running, but still defined, and 'virsh start
$dom' will restart the given domain.  Normally, the 'libvirt-guests'
systemd service will arrange to automatically restart a guest where it
left off just before the host power-cycled, but that can fall apart when
libvirtd itself has problems restarting.

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