Reading back over the archives, I see there was a proposal to add a <disk ... persistent="no"> attribute. I don't think that was ever adopted. http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-July/msg00649.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list