Comment 22 for bug 562189

I also got this error on 10.10 and, to David's comment, changing the name of the --hostname bypassed the problem as you created a new vm. But using virsh or virt-manager to delete the pre-existing image resolved the problem. However, my question is this. Is the -o option intended to remove any files, including a preexisting image or does it just remove other transient files that may exist but is NOT intended to delete what may be a functioning production VM?

For myself, I am totally fine with Lennart's suggestion of an error message if the vm exists already. Would someone clarify what the purpose of the -o is in that case?