Description of problem: libvirt can save and restore guests. It is also possible to autostart guest at boot time. I miss a similar option: 'persistent' booting the host: * the guest is restored if there is a saved version * else it is booted shutdown of the host * the guest is saved The xendomain script does something like this. There the 'autostart' option checks if the domain was saved. If it was this domain is restored else it is created. At shutdown of the dom0 all running domU's are saved.
Adding extra features like this are better discussed in the mailing-list. I don't think a bugzilla entry has enough visibility to get the amount of eyeball and review needed for this kind of things especially since it toutches things like the boot sequence. So please bring it up to the mailing-list for discussions: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list Daniel
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444273 ***