How to autostart openstack instance or VM
Configuring Instances to Start Automatically in OpenStack Open the nova.conf file & find resume_guests_state_on_host_boot property vi /etc/nova/nova.conf # resume_guests_state_on_host_boot=false # Set the value of the property to true: resume_guests_state_on_host_boot=true systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute Method 2: You can Set the 'autostart' flag so the vm/domain is started upon boot. You can use virsh command just type virsh on terminal & get help for all available option To list all available domain virsh To Domain list. virsh domstats virsh net-list Here is no auto restart VM found Set 'autostart' flag virsh autostart instance-00000001 For autostart you need to use available KVM functionality.