Deleted libvirt.img. Cant start VM service. How to recreate libvirt.img? By

[peterge]

Hi, i accidently deleted the file while replacing my cache drive. Now, when i start vm manager, it says "Libvirt Service failed to start." in VM Tab.

How can i recreate this file, to get vm manager working again?

 

 

[JorgeB]

Settings -> VM Manager

 

Make sure advanced view is enable (top right)

[JorgeB]

Please don't crosspost, see your other thread.

[peterge]

2 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

Settings -> VM Manager

 

Make sure advanced view is enable (top right)

I did enable advanced view. I can select the new file, but the /system/libvirt/ directory is empty...... (Because i deleted the file...)

[JorgeB]

You have to specify the file, e.g.

/system/libvirt/libvirt.img

 

[trurl]

I have merged your threads.

2 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

Please don't crosspost, see your other thread.

Crossposting has been considered a bad thing on message boards since long before the world wide web.

 

How are we supposed to coordinate our responses when you do this?

[peterge]

1 minute ago, johnnie.black said:

You have to specify the file, e.g.

/system/libvirt/libvirt.img

 

This file doesnt exist, because i deleted it. As i already wrote 2 times.

 

(Screenshot of my /system/libvirt/ directory)

[JorgeB]

You need to re-created by

6 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

You have to specify the file, e.g.

/system/libvirt/libvirt.img

 

[peterge]

9 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

You need to re-created by

 

Wow, this was way simpler than i thought. just typed the path in. thanks!

[905jay]

I also deleted my libvirt.img file accidentally

I was able to recreate it but VMs section no longer seens my domain that I have created, although I can verify that the domains folders exist

 

can someone help me reimport them so I can boot the VMs?

 

Quote

root@i5unRAID:~# ls -alrt /mnt/user/system/libvirt/
total 1048576
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users         35 Aug  6 23:43 ../
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users         25 Aug 23 12:15 ./
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody users 1073741824 Aug 23 12:16 libvirt.img

 

Quote

root@i5unRAID:~# ls -alrt /mnt/user/domains/
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 24 Aug 21 01:51 Windows\ 10/
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 42 Aug 21 01:55 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 24 Aug 21 01:55 Confluence/
drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 90 Aug 23 11:50 ../

 

 

 

Edited August 23, 2019 by 905jay
added screenshot and quoted fs dir listings

[JorgeB]

15 minutes ago, 905jay said:

can someone help me reimport them so I can boot the VMs?

If you don't have a libvirt.img backup, and you should, you'll need to recreate the XMLs for all VMs, using the same config and pointing to the existing vdisks, uefi booting VMs might also require this.

[905jay]

I actually just fixed it

 

so what I did is go through the motions of creating another Windows10 VM

BUT instead of making a new vDisk I simply selected manual, and pointed to the already existing vdisk that I created before I bunged everything up.

 

Windows10 VM booted as if nothing happened

 

[toyota4runner]

Thanks heaps for the suggestion above! Just saved me so many headaches!

[abhi.ko]

On 8/23/2019 at 11:36 AM, JorgeB said:

If you don't have a libvirt.img backup, and you should, you'll need to recreate the XMLs for all VMs, using the same config and pointing to the existing vdisks, uefi booting VMs might also require this.

Hi @JorgeB how do I restore if I do have a backup from CA Backup. I don't see a restore option for VM's, only for appdata within that plugin.

 

Is it just a copy and paste the backup file to the actual location? 

Edited June 17, 2023 by abhi.ko

[JorgeB]

21 minutes ago, abhi.ko said:

Is it just a copy and paste the backup file to the actual location?

That should do it, VM service must be disabled first.

[abhi.ko]

Thank You!