A few more: *** <name>"</name> *** virsh define - OK virsh list - OK virsh start - FAILED virt-viewer - n/a virt-df - see below virsh destroy - n/a virt-list-filesystems - OK I'm fairly sure this is not a shell error: $ sudo virsh start \" error: missing " https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639983 virt-df is fine, but virt-df --csv doesn't properly quote the output. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986 *** <name>;</name> *** virsh define - OK virsh list - OK virsh start - FAILED virt-viewer - n/a virt-df - OK virsh destroy - n/a virt-list-filesystems - OK I'm fairly sure this is not a shell error: $ sudo virsh start \; error: command 'start' requires <domain> option $ sudo virsh start ';' error: command 'start' requires <domain> option I thought it might be a problem with sudo, so I also tried: $ su # virsh start ';' error: command 'start' requires <domain> option https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639987 *** <name>\</name> *** virsh define - OK virsh list - OK virsh start - OK virt-viewer - OK virt-df - OK virsh destroy - OK virt-list-filesystems - OK *** <name>|</name> *** virsh define - OK virsh list - OK virsh start - OK virt-viewer - OK virt-df - OK virsh destroy - OK virt-list-filesystems - OK Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list