On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:34:52AM +0200, Alexander Topolanek wrote: > Hi, > > im migrating existing kvm-images into libvirt domains, by creating a > domain in virsh from a xml file. The domain starts, is working fine, but > after shutdown it is lost, and I have to recreate it. virsh create XML boots up a transient guest that disappears after shutdown. If you want it to stay around, the nuse virsh define XML virsh start GUESTNAME > BTW, can I reset the domain count somewhere? That's implicitly reset when libvirtd is restarted, to the lowest ID of any running guest, plus one. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|