What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Persistent guests are set to auto-shutdown when setting auto_shutdown_try_shutdown to transient. If I understand correctly, whether auto_shutdown_try_shutdown set to "transient" or "none", since from the doc:

# The settings for auto shutdown actions accept one of
# four possible options:
#
# * "none" - do not try to save any running VMs
# * "persistent" - only try to save persistent running VMs
# * "transient" - only try to save transient running VMs
# * "all" - try to save all running VMs

the bahavior of persistent guests should apply the same logic.

# Whether VMs that are automatically powered off or saved during
# host shutdown, should be set to restore on next boot
#auto_shutdown_restore = 1

I think the restore should only apply to the guests that are automatically powered off or saved.

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

libvirt-11.3.0-1.el10.x86_64

How reproducible is this bug?:

100%

Steps to reproduce

1. Set the auto shutdown parameters

# grep -v -e '^#' -e '^$' /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
auto_shutdown_try_shutdown = "transient"
auto_shutdown_restore = 1

2. Prepare a persistent guest and a transient guest

# virsh list --all --persistent 
 Id   Name             State
---------------------------------
 3    avocado-vt-vm1   running

# virsh list --all --transient 
 Id   Name             State
--------------------------------
 1    avocado-vt-vm2   running

3. Reboot the host

4. Check the guest status

# virsh list --all
 Id   Name             State
---------------------------------
 1    avocado-vt-vm1   running

5. Check the log

1. grep -rni virDomainDriverAutoShutdown /var/log/libvirt/virtqemud.log
   57671:2025-06-04 08:51:19.855+0000: 2750: debug : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:741 : Run autoshutdown uri=qemu:///system trySave=none tryShutdown=transient poweroff=none waitShutdownSecs=0 saveBypassCache=0 autoRestore=1
   57727:2025-06-04 08:51:19.856+0000: 2750: debug : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:789 :Auto shutdown with 2 running domains
   57736:2025-06-04 08:51:19.856+0000: 2750: debug : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:798 : Cannot auto-restore transient VM avocado-vt-vm2
   57745:2025-06-04 08:51:19.856+0000: 2750: debug : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:801 : Mark avocado-vt-vm1 for autostart on next boot
   57761:2025-06-04 08:51:19.857+0000: 2750: info : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:872 : Shutting down 'avocado-vt-vm2'
   57858:2025-06-04 08:51:19.932+0000: 2750: info : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:885 : Waiting 30 secs for VM shutdown completion
   58221:2025-06-04 08:51:24.069+0000: 2750: info : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:938 : Processed 2 domains
   58222:2025-06-04 08:51:24.069+0000: 2750: warning : virDomainDriverAutoShutdown:951 : auto-shutdown: domain 'avocado-vt-vm1' not successfully shut off by any action

Actual results

Even I set the auto_shutdown_try_shutdown to "transient", persistent guests are still be marked as autostart once

Additional info:

1. If set the auto_shutdown_try_shutdown to none

# grep -v -e '^#' -e '^$' /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
auto_shutdown_try_shutdown = "none"
auto_shutdown_restore = 1

2. Reboot the host

3. Check the guest status

# virsh list --all
 Id   Name             State
---------------------------------
 -    avocado-vt-vm1   shut off

The guests are not autostarted.