VM won't do autostart - help needed

[Yuri Weinstein <yuri.weinstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

I used to have QEMU/KVM and Virtual Machine Manager running on ubuntu 16.04 and used to start my VM from crontab as:

@reboot sleep 30 && virsh start WINDOWS10

After upgrading to ubuntu 18.04 this stopped working, with error:

error: failed to get domain 'WINDOWS10'
error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'WINDOWS10'

Running command as "virsh start WINDOWS10" works fine.

I am trying to use Virtual Machine Manager to autostart my VM and it simply does not work.

Here is more info on the VM:

virsh dominfo WINDOWS10
Id:             2
Name:           WINDOWS10
UUID:           32faf348-f54e-445a-90cc-e64d28d9d396
OS Type:        hvm
State:          running
CPU(s):         4
CPU time:       4846.0s
Max memory:     8192000 KiB
Used memory:    8192000 KiB
Persistent:     yes
Autostart:      enable
Managed save:   no
Security model: apparmor
Security DOI:   0
Security label: libvirt-32faf348-f54e-445a-90cc-e64d28d9d396 (enforcing)

Sounds like a bug to me.

Any help appreciated.