[libvirt] /var/run/libvirt

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:08:05PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >
> > install -d -m 0755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_localstatedir}/run/libvirt/
> >
> > in libvirt spec file and
> >
> > mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(localstatedir)/run/libvirt
> >
> > in qemud/Makefile.am as part of install-data-local rule. So it seems
> > it really should be created appropriately as part of 'make install'
> 
> My /var/run is empty upon boot. (ramfs) One may wonder why libvirt needs a
> dedicated directory at all for two sockets...

That just happens to be your particular deployment scenario. Other
hypervisor drivers put stuff in there too, hence we have a directory.

Daniel
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