VM won't do autostart - help needed

[Yuri Weinstein]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:03 AM Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 2/17/20 8:20 PM, Yuri Weinstein wrote:
> > Thanks Michal!
> >
> > See comments in line
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:23 AM Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com
> > <mailto:mprivozn at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2/16/20 10:20 PM, Yuri Weinstein wrote:
> >      > 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
> >
> >     Libvirt has an autostart feature, which can start your domain on the
> >     first time libvirtd is started (i.e. during boot).
> >
> >     virsh autostart 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.
> >      >
> >
> >     This is probably because cron doesn't run the command as root and
> hence
> >     the virsh is no longer connecting to 'qemu:///system' but
> >     'qemu:///session'. Change it to:
> >
> >     virsh -c qemu:///system start WINDOWS10
> >
> >
> > I managed to force austart via Startup App as:
> > sh -c "sleep 30 && /usr/bin/virsh start WINDOWS10"
> >
> > See your point about using root and/or 'qemu:///system' and will try it.
> >
> >
> >     But I suggest using the autostart feature instead.
> >
> >
> > This is the main issue - it does not work! :(  Tried via command line
> and UI
> > You can see =>
> > Autostart:      enable
> >
> > How can this be fixed and/or troubleshooted?
>
> Oh, I've completely missed that. Sorry. What is your libvirt version?
> Since v5.9.0 libvirt will autostart domains exactly once for every boot
> of the host. I mean, when libvirtd is started it will check if
> /var/run/libvirt/qemu/autostarted file exists and if it doesn't, it will
> autostart all qemu domains with autostart enabled. If the file does
> exist then no autostart is attempted.
>

My version show:
 virsh version
Compiled against library: libvirt 4.0.0
Using library: libvirt 4.0.0
Using API: QEMU 4.0.0
Running hypervisor: QEMU 2.11.1

Is it right?  I thought my system is up to date.


>
> This usually works as expected - when host boots and starts libvirtd
> service all domains are autostarted. And if libvirtd is restarted
> afterwards no autostart is happening. If host reboots, /var/run should
> be purged and the file with it. Therefore, autostart will be run after
> reboot again.
>
> Under what connection does your domain live? qemu:///system or
> qemu:///session? Because if it is the latter then this won't work -
> session daemon is not started automatically. However, if you are using
> socket activated system daemon, then the daemon is not started on the
> boot only on its first use and therefore autostart will be delayed until
> then.
>
> Michal
>

I can do

virsh -c qemu:///system
and list --all shows my domains
 (virsh -c qemu:///session won't do it)

So I guess under qemu:///system
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/attachments/20200218/fa4a94f4/attachment.htm>