When booting a VM with libvirt/qemu named 'miiiiiiiiiiiike-s-antoshnment-junkliance-trash-internal-v001-54cn5' a file gets created in /run/system/machines named qemu-10-miiiiiiiiiiiike-s-antoshnment-junkliance-trash-internal-. When that generated name ends with a '-', the VM is unable to boot:
# virsh start miiiiiiiiiiiike-s-antoshnment-junkliance-trash-internal-v001-54cn5
error: Failed to start domain miiiiiiiiiiiike-s-antoshnment-junkliance-trash-internal-v001-54cn5
error: Invalid machine name
If I change the VM name such that the generated name ends with a character other than '-', the VM will start. Is there a fix for this or workaround? Our users can pick their VM names.
# uname -a
Linux csgdmlx-ost-1-2.company.com 5.4.0-72-generic #80-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 12 17:35:00 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS"
# apt list --installed | grep -e libvirt -e qemu -e dbus -e systemd
dbus-user-session/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1.12.16-2ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
dbus/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1.12.16-2ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed]
ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms/focal,now 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu4 all [installed,automatic]
ipxe-qemu/focal-updates,now 1.0.0+git-20190109.133f4c4-0ubuntu3.2 all [installed,automatic]
libdbus-1-3/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1.12.16-2ubuntu2.1 amd64 [installed]
libnss-systemd/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed]
libpam-systemd/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed]
libsystemd0/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed]
libvirt-clients/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed]
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libvirt-daemon-system-systemd/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libvirt-daemon-system/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed]
libvirt-daemon/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed]
libvirt0/focal-updates,now 6.0.0-0ubuntu8.11 amd64 [installed,automatic]
python3-dbus/focal,now 1.2.16-1build1 amd64 [installed]
python3-libvirt/focal,now 6.1.0-1 amd64 [installed]
python3-slip-dbus/focal,now 0.6.5-2 all [installed,automatic]
qemu-block-extra/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qemu-kvm/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qemu-system-common/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qemu-system-data/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 all [installed,automatic]
qemu-system-gui/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qemu-system-x86/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 amd64 [installed,automatic]
qemu-utils/focal-updates,focal-security,focal-security,now 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.17 amd64 [installed,automatic]
systemd-container/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed,automatic]
systemd-sysv/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed]
systemd-timesyncd/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed]
systemd/focal-updates,now 245.4-4ubuntu3.7 amd64 [installed]