PJ, I didn't have virsh installed (libvirt-client). After having installed it, it still didn't see the process: virsh autostart testvm error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or directory Then, after having installed libvirt, it gives essentially the same error. I was thinking that in iterations past, it was possible just to run the hypervisor, put a symlink in /etc/xen/auto, and VMs would be auto-started upon reboot. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe those older boxes had libvirt installed on them, too. If I need to install libvirt, what does this mean overall? What am I changing? What other process needs to run or be started upon boot on a CentOS 7.x box? Thanks. -- Craig Thompson, President Caldwell Global Communications, Inc. -----Original message----- From: PJ Welsh <pjwelsh at gmail.com> Sent: Monday 15th August 2016 17:05 To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ? Try, "virsh autostart VMNAME" pjwelsh On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Craig Thompson <president at caldwellglobal.com <mailto:president at caldwellglobal.com> > wrote: Hello, In days past, all I had to do was create /etc/xen/auto and put a symlink in there to the config file for each VM I wanted to have started automatically. Since updating to 4.6, this doesn't work. Period. I'm having a hard time finding what needs to change in order to get VMs to auto start on reboot of a server. Can someone please point me to documentation that I have missed or share the gold nugget? -- Craig Thompson, President Caldwell Global Communications, Inc. _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt at centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20160823/85e11243/attachment-0006.html>