libvirt autostart VM is broken

[Robert Locke]

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 08:38 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The libvirtd autostart VM option seems to be broken [1,2], so I need a 
> work-around.
> 
> How can I start the libvirtd service, and then (after the service has 
> fully started) start a particular VM from the command line? (I can do 
> this from the gui of course, but I want to stick it in a script).
> 
> - Mike
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477025
> [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg09937.html
> 

Try the command line utility, virsh, as in "virsh start domainname"

HTH,

--Rob