Xen on Red Hat 5 and Windows Guests

I'm running RH5 & Xen and have mutliple Windows 2003 guests running. The
guest VMs start fine with 'xm create vmname' command however they do not
auto start or shutdown cleanly. For auto starting I have created
symbolic links in the /etc/xen/auto directory. In the xend.log I see
the following:

[2007-06-06 20:03:40 xend 2981] ERRR (XendDomain:268) Restore failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/", line
263, in domain_restore_fd
return XendCheckpoint.restore(self, fd)
File "/",
line 144, in restore
"not a valid guest state file: pfn count read")
File "/",
line 50, in read_exact
raise XendError(errmsg)
XendError: not a valid guest state file: pfn count read

Has anyone else run into this issue?
Thanks

Roy Anciso
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The problem is in "pfn count read".
The solution is delete the files in /var/lib/xen/save/

And change the variable "XENDOMAINS_SAVE" in the file xendomains

/etc/default/xendomains in debian
/etc/sysconfig/xendomains in fedora

## Type: string
## Default: /var/lib/xen/save
#
# Directory to save running domains to when the system (dom0) is
# shut down. Will also be used to restore domains from if
# XENDOMAINS_RESTORE
# is set (see below). Leave empty to disable domain saving on shutdown
# (e.g. because you rather shut domains down).
# If domain saving does succeed, SHUTDOWN will not be executed.
#
#XENDOMAINS_SAVE=/var/lib/xen/save
XENDOMAINS_SAVE=""