> Hmm, okay, so when you start virt-manager, MobileOtp3 isn't listed? Is that > also the name you were using for a new VM that threw the 'name already in use' > error? > > What's the output of virt-manager --debug when reproducing the reported issue? Now MobileOtp3 was listed. I tried to run the VM and then got Error starting domain: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'info' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 45, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 959, in asyncfunc vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1129, in startup self._update_status() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1355, in _update_status info = self.get_info() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1024, in get_info return self._backend.info() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'info' virt-manager said $ virt-manager --debug 2012-02-07 16:21:15,246 (virt-manager:175): Application startup 2012-02-07 16:21:15,273 (virt-manager:363): Launched as: /usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py --debug 2012-02-07 16:21:15,274 (virt-manager:364): GTK version: (2, 24, 7) 2012-02-07 16:21:18,325 (engine:338): About to connect to uris ['xen:///'] 2012-02-07 16:21:18,380 (virt-manager:436): Connected to already running instance. and now MobileOtp3 has disappeared from the VM list in virt-manager. - Gergely