qemu does provide life cycle management of a non-running guest. For that, I'd recommend a tool such as libvirt.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Invalid -- KVM guest O.S not booting properly when shutdown or restarting Host machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: Hi , I used fedora 12 as a host O.S and created VM using qemu-kvm package. My guest O.S is ubuntu-server 9.04.. But when i restart host OS then VM does not start automatically ... So is there any problem with KVM or is it a bug.. My installed Packages are : qemu-common-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 qemu-kvm-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 qemu-img-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.9-1.20091018git.fc12.noarch qemu-system-x86-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 qemu-kvm-0.11.0-13.fc12.i686 Plz suggest some solution ASAP.