B.4. Guest starting fails with error: monitor socket did not show up

Symptom

The guest virtual machine (or domain) starting fails with this error (or similar):

virsh -c qemu:///system create name_of_guest.xml error: Failed to create domain from name_of_guest.xml error: monitor socket did not show up.: Connection refused

# virsh -c qemu:///system create name_of_guest.xml error: Failed to create domain from name_of_guest.xml error: monitor socket did not show up.: Connection refused

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Investigation

This error message shows:

libvirt is working;
The QEMU process failed to start up; and
libvirt quits when trying to connect QEMU or the QEMU agent monitor socket.

To understand the error details, examine the guest log:

cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/name_of_guest.log
LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -enable-kvm -m 768 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name name_of_guest -uuid ebfaadbe-e908-ba92-fdb8-3fa2db557a42 -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/name_of_guest.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -no-reboot -boot c -kernel /var/lib/libvirt/boot/vmlinuz -initrd /var/lib/libvirt/boot/initrd.img -append method=http://www.example.com/pub/product/release/version/x86_64/os/ -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/name_of_guest.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,boot=on -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:40:00:f4:f1:0a,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net tap,fd=42,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-gb -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,
addr=0x3
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/vmlinuz':
Permission denied

# cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/name_of_guest.log
LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -enable-kvm -m 768 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name name_of_guest -uuid ebfaadbe-e908-ba92-fdb8-3fa2db557a42 -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/name_of_guest.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -no-reboot -boot c -kernel /var/lib/libvirt/boot/vmlinuz -initrd /var/lib/libvirt/boot/initrd.img -append method=http://www.example.com/pub/product/release/version/x86_64/os/ -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/name_of_guest.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,boot=on -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:40:00:f4:f1:0a,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -net tap,fd=42,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-gb -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,
addr=0x3 
char device redirected to /dev/pts/1
qemu: could not load kernel '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/vmlinuz':
Permission denied

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Solution

The guest log contains the details needed to fix the error.

If a host is shut down while the guest is still running a libvirt version prior to 0.9.5, the libvirt-guest's init script attempts to perform a managed save of the guest. If the managed save was incomplete (for example, due to loss of power before the managed save image was flushed to disk), the save image is corrupted and will not be loaded by QEMU. The older version of libvirt does not recognize the corruption, making the problem perpetual. In this case, the guest log will show an attempt to use -incoming as one of its arguments, meaning that libvirt is trying to start QEMU by migrating in the saved state file.

This problem can be fixed by running virsh managedsave-remove name_of_guest to remove the corrupted managed save image. Newer versions of libvirt take steps to avoid the corruption in the first place, as well as adding virsh start --force-boot name_of_guest to bypass any managed save image.

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B.4. Guest starting fails with error: monitor socket did not show up

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