On 17.03.2015 20:45, James B. Byrne wrote: > These are the messages that I get when trying to attach a virtio disk > to or perform a shutdown of the problem vm guest. > > > Add hardware > > This device could not be attached to the running machine. Would you > like to make the device available after the next guest shutdown? > > Requested operation is not valid: cannot do live update a device on > inactive domain > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/addhardware.py", line > 1095, in add_device > self.vm.attach_device(self._dev) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 756, in > attach_device > self._backend.attachDevice(devxml) > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 403, in > attachDevice > if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainAttachDevice() > failed', dom=self) > libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: cannot do live update > a device on inactive domain > > > Shutdown domain: > > Error shutting down domain: Requested operation is not valid: domain > is not running > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 44, in > cb_wrapper > callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 65, in > tmpcb > callback(*args, **kwargs) > File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1106, in > shutdown > self._backend.shutdown() > File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1566, in > shutdown > if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainShutdown() failed', > dom=self) > libvirtError: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running > > > > They seem to be mutually exclusive and yet occur together nonetheless. > Have you tried restarting the libvirtd service? Regards, Dennis