I just noticed that if I leave off the -nodefaults from the qemu command line, the guest will reliably start up again. I don't know what reasons the libvirt developers had for putting it there, though... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html