On 01/05/2012 11:43 AM, Pankaj Rawat wrote: > I created a xml file guestfvd.xml > > Then I made changes as u specified > And when run command > > > [root@localhost qemu]# virsh start guestfvd > error: failed to get domain 'guestfvd' > error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'guestfvd' > > > Now this error make sence since we have'nt created a guest yet how can > we start such one. > Please correct me if I'm wrong > Can you help me on this You forgot to define it first ;-) You have to define it using "virsh define guestfvd.xml" first and then start :-) The name of what guest to start have to be the same as the one in "//domain/name" node of xPath query applied to the XML file. Michal -- Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>, RHCE, Red Hat Virtualization | libvirt-php bindings | php-virt-control.org -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list