<div>My virtual machine created, often in the absence of intervention into the stopped state: </div><div><div><br></div><div>pyw@ven-1:~/devstack$ virsh list --all</div><div> Id Name                 State</div><div>----------------------------------</div>
<div>  - instance-00000040    shut off<br></div><div>  - instance-00000044    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000045    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000046    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000047    shut off</div>
<div>  - instance-0000005b    shut off</div><div>  - instance-0000005e    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000065    shut off</div><div>  - instance-0000006e    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000075    shut off</div><div>
  - instance-00000076    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000077    shut off</div><div>  - instance-0000007c    shut off</div><div>  - instance-0000007d    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000081    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000082    shut off</div>
<div>  - instance-00000083    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000084    shut off</div><div>  - instance-00000085    shut off</div></div><div><br></div><div>query the nova the database, you can see:</div><div>vm_state: stopped</div>
<div>Why is this?</div>