Hi, I encountered the same bug, just that also the first invocation failed. So I could not bring up the network at all.
I found the following workaround, in case anybody else also struggles with this:
- Execute command with argument "--print-xml", e.g. virsh domif-setlink ViRogue up --print-xml > domif-up.xml - Edit domif-up.xml and fix double "state" tags in "link" entry - Apply XML to running VM, e.g. virsh update-device ViRogue domif-up.xml --live Thank you!