Re: [libvirt-users] new guest with same name as undefined one

2011-09-26 Thread Sergio A. Kessler
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:57, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/26/2011 06:52 AM, David Cohen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> See if you have a /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/your_guest_name.save >> That might be the ghost of the old guest preventing startup. > > Yes, that's exactly what I suspect.  However, directly me

Re: [libvirt-users] new guest with same name as undefined one

2011-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/26/2011 06:52 AM, David Cohen wrote: Hi, See if you have a /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/your_guest_name.save That might be the ghost of the old guest preventing startup. Yes, that's exactly what I suspect. However, directly messing with files under /var/lib/libvirt/... is not recommended;

Re: [libvirt-users] new guest with same name as undefined one

2011-09-26 Thread David Cohen
Hi, See if you have a /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/your_guest_name.save That might be the ghost of the old guest preventing startup. -- David Cohen On Sunday 25 September 2011 23:45:01 Sergio A. Kessler wrote: > hi, > > - host: rhel6 > - I created a guest rmdev2 (centos6) > - undefined it > - aga

Re: [libvirt-users] new guest with same name as undefined one

2011-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/25/2011 02:45 PM, Sergio A. Kessler wrote: hi, - host: rhel6 - I created a guest rmdev2 (centos6) - undefined it This step is buggy on older servers; it was fixed in upstream libvirt 0.9.4 to refuse deletion unless you first ensure that any managed save metadata has been removed (also,