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Description of problem: After shutting down my laptop, libvirt saved the state of a VM. When trying to start it, it get the following Error restoring domain: operation failed: failed to read qemu header Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in tmpcb callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1050, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 510, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: operation failed: failed to read qemu header Since there is no way to manually remove that saved state, the virtual machine is rendered unusable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.9.6-2.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a virtual machine 2. Power off host / power on host 3. Try to start virtual machien Actual results: Error message Expected results: Virtual Machine running Additional info:
(In reply to comment #0) > Since there is no way to manually remove that saved state, the virtual machine > is rendered unusable. This doesn't solve the basic problem, but there *is* a way to remove the saved state: virsh managedsave-remove $guestname will get rid of it.
fixed in qemu-kvm-0.15.1-1.fc16.x86_64 virt-manager-0.9.0-6.fc16.noarch libvirt-0.9.6-2.fc16.x86_64 -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers