VM does not show up in virt-manager, how to troubleshoot

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I spun up a VM using virsh create, and I am able to see the VM in virsh list, however, when I run virt-manager, I am unable to see the VM in the GUI

I am trying to use virt-manager to access the VM console (virsh console does not work)

Does anybody have ideas how to troubleshoot this?

I found this: virt-manager doesn't show list of local KVMs but virsh does : but the question was never answered

EDIT: tried restarting libvirtd, still see the same thing. "grep libvirt /var/log/messages" does not show anything

EDIT2: spun up a second VM on second HV, the second VM shows up in virt-manager, but the first one doesn't. Very odd. Diffing the xml files dont show anything major, and the qemu commands look the same under ps

Best Answer

I would start by checking the logs on the virtualization server (grep for libvirt in /var/log/messages) and see if any messages point you towards a problem.

I've encountered issues before where virsh worked fine, but virt-manager behaved weirdly. Restarting libvirt on the virtualization server has always solved the problem for me.

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