I tried Bionic and Focal. Setting autostart as well as seeing the effect on reboot worked just the same there:
oot@b:~# virsh autostart h-test Domain h-test marked as autostarted root@b:~# ll /etc/libvirt/qemu/autostart/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Mar 26 08:56 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 5 Mar 26 08:56 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 26 08:56 h-test.xml -> /etc/libvirt/qemu/h-test.xml root@b:~# virsh shutdown h-test Domain h-test is being shutdown root@b:~# reboot root@b:~# [✗=129]─[paelzer@Keschdeichel ~]──[203538]──[09:57 Fr Mär 26]── $ lxc exec b bash root@b:~# virsh list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 1 h-test running root@f:~# virsh autostart h-test Domain h-test marked as autostarted root@f:~# ll /etc/libvirt/qemu/autostart/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Mar 26 08:56 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 5 Mar 26 08:56 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 26 08:56 h-test.xml -> /etc/libvirt/qemu/h-test.xml root@f:~# virsh shutdown h-test Domain h-test is being shutdown root@f:~# reboot root@f:~# [✗=129]─[paelzer@Keschdeichel ~]──[203673]──[09:57 Fr Mär 26]── $ lxc exec f bash root@f:~# virsh list Id Name State ------------------------ 1 h-test running Now trying the rename ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921325 Title: VM will not auto-start automatically when server is rebooted after virsh domrename To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1921325/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
