Eric, I have a RHEL6.0 machine running libvirt 0.8.7-18. I am running into issue mentioned in one of the previous posting. https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-December/msg00059.html # virsh start <domain> error: Failed to start domain <domain> error: operation failed: failed to read qemu header # od -N 128 -tx1z /path/to/domain.save 0000000 The workaroud to run --force-boot does not work on 0.8. Is a fix available for this issue? -Sharad Mishra