cannot remove/create VM exists and doesn't exist

[Max Andersen]

Hi everyone,

I created a win7 HVM as per instructions here:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2488

And it installed nicely. After applying windows updates and
qubes-windows-tools, the VM wouldn't start, so I thought I'd remove it
and recreate it all over again, but I get an error:

libvirtError: operation failed: domain 'win7' already exists with uuid ....

I can see it with "sudo virsh list -all" a it shows:

-     win7      Shut off

Any ideas on how to remove it since a new remove syas it isn't there
anymore?

qvm-remove win7
A VM with the name 'win7' does not exist in the system

Sincerely
Max

[awokd]

On Mon, January 1, 2018 4:36 am, 'Max Andersen' via qubes-users wrote:

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> libvirtError: operation failed: domain 'win7' already exists with uuid
> ....

Sometimes a reboot clears up discrepancies like that for me.

[Max Andersen]

Hi awokd

I’m sorry, I tried that, after restarting the libvirtd service and that didn’t work.

Thank you for your reply

Soncerely
Max

[awokd]

Can try to rename Win7 to Win7b. There is also a "virsh destroy" but
ordinarily you shouldn't have to use that.

[Max Andersen]

I cannot rename or do a simple list with qvm-prefs. Only with virsh, so
there must be a discrepancy between the 2.

qvm-ls shows no win7, but virsh does.

Sincerely
Max

[Max Andersen]

I started up the virsh shell, typed 'undefine win7', and started all
over. That worked.

Thank you for your efforts, awokd

Sincerely
Max

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[Lorenzo Guerra]

Mine is just a guess: have you tried with something like 'virsh -c xen:/// undefine win7' and then, if some references to your vm remains in qubes.xml or the Application menus, manually remove them?

[awokd]

Sounds like that worked for Max. "Destroy" doesn't also undefine?

[m...@militant.dk]

Den mandag den 1. januar 2018 kl. 14.44.10 UTC+1 skrev Lorenzo Guerra:
> Mine is just a guess: have you tried with something like 'virsh -c xen:/// undefine win7' and then, if some references to your vm remains in qubes.xml or the Application menus, manually remove them?

Great guess. undefine works perfectly, thank you

Sincerely
Max

[m...@militant.dk]

Nope. Destroy didn't work. I tried that first, thank you

Sincerely
Max