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Description of problem: * If the libvirt-guests initscript is enabled while rgmanager is managing the -same- virtual machines, the initscript, being not cluster-aware, will start VMs already under rgmanager control on other hosts in the cluster. * If the guests are configured to autostart using 'virsh autostart', the libvirt tools will automatically start the virtual machines already under rgmanager control on other hosts in the cluster. These situations can end up with data loss in the virtual machines. When running the cluster software to manage virtual machines, it is very important to adhere to the following: 1) The libvirt-guests init script must be disabled. 2) All guests configured for cluster control must be disabled from an auto-start perspective (e.g. virsh autostart --disable myvm1). 3) It is a best practice to use a non-default path for storing virtual machine configuration files. For example, use /mnt/guests (the default is /etc/libvirt/qemu). NOTE: If this is correctly done, steps (1) and (2) may not be necessary. 4) Cluster-managed virtual machines must be managed using the cluster software. Do not mix usage of virt-manager, virsh, or other tools with rgmanager / luci. The combination of these provide the following benefits: a) Deterministic virtual machine behavior b) Prevention of accidental management by other, non-cluster tools.