Testing bionic (don't be confused by the guest named disco) Pre: ubuntu@riccioli:~$ virsh attach-device disco hpdisk.xml error: Failed to attach device from hpdisk.xml error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'device_add': Duplicate ID 'scsi0-0-0-0' for device Upgrade: $ sudo apt install libvirt-daemon-system Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd libvirt0 Suggested packages: libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-sheepdog libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs numad radvd auditd systemtap nfs-common zfsutils pm-utils The following packages will be upgraded: libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd libvirt-daemon-system libvirt0 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded. Need to get 4116 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd amd64 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13 [15.4 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libvirt-daemon-system amd64 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13 [80.7 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libvirt-daemon amd64 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13 [2176 kB] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libvirt-clients amd64 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13 [596 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 libvirt0 amd64 4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13 [1248 kB] Fetched 4116 kB in 1s (4660 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 71127 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd_4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) over (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.12) ... Preparing to unpack .../libvirt-daemon-system_4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libvirt-daemon-system (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) over (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.12) ... Preparing to unpack .../libvirt-daemon_4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libvirt-daemon (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) over (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.12) ... Preparing to unpack .../libvirt-clients_4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libvirt-clients (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) over (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.12) ... Preparing to unpack .../libvirt0_4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libvirt0:amd64 (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) over (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.12) ... Setting up libvirt0:amd64 (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) ... Setting up libvirt-daemon (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) ... Setting up libvirt-clients (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) ... Setting up libvirt-daemon-system (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) ... virtlockd.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. Setting up libvirt-daemon dnsmasq configuration. Setting up libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd (4.0.0-1ubuntu8.13) ... Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.29) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Post: ubuntu@riccioli:~$ virsh attach-device disco hpdisk.xml error: Failed to attach device from hpdisk.xml error: Requested operation is not valid: Domain already contains a disk with that address Works as expected. Setting verified.