I am also seeing this problem (or something very similar). If I restore a saved VM from virsh, virt-manager still sees it as shutdown. This happens even if the VM was saved via virt-manager.
I havn't tested this as root but I can repeat it over and over as a user who has KVM and libvirt group membership. aptitude show virt-manager Package: virt-manager New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.7.0-3ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 4,379k Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.17.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpython2.6 (>= 2.6), gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), python-gtk2, python-glade2aptitude show libvirt-bin Package: libvirt-bin New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.7.0-1ubuntu13.1 Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 1,393k Depends: libapparmor1, libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.8), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.20), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.2), libgnutls26 (>= 2.7.14-0), libhal1 (>= 0.5.8.1), libparted1.8-12 (>= 1.8.8.git.2009.06.03-1ubuntu5), libpolkit-dbus2 (>= 0.7), libpolkit2 (>= 0.7), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libsasl2-2, libselinux1 (>= 2.0.85), libtasn1-3 (>= 1.6-0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16-1), libvirt0 (= 0.7.0-1ubuntu13.1), libxen3, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, logrotate, bridge-utils, dnsmasq-base, netcat-openbsd, iptables Recommends: kvm Suggests: policykit, apparmor (>= 2.3+1289-0ubuntu14) , python-gnome2, python-dbus, python-urlgrabber, python-vte, librsvg2-common, python-libvirt (>= 0.4.6), python-virtinst (>= 0.400.1), python-gtk-vnc (>= 0.3.8) Recommends: hal, libvirt-bin (>= 0.4.6) Suggests: virt-viewer aptitude show qemu-kvm Package: qemu-kvm New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.11.0-0ubuntu6.3 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 7,852k Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.18), libc6 (>= 2.10), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2-1), libgnutls26 (>= 2.7.14-0), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), libpci3, libpulse0 (>= 0.9.19), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), python, iproute, bridge-utils, adduser Suggests: ubuntu-vm-builder, kvm-pxe, uml-utilities, qemu-kvm-extras Conflicts: kvm (< 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+0.11.0), kvm-data, qemu (< 0.11.0-0ubuntu5) Breaks: udev (< 136-1) Replaces: kvm (< 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+0.11.0), kvm-data, qemu Provides: kvm, qemu I would say this is a pretty significant bug in virt-manager. -- VM started with virsh but not marked started in virt-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs