[libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

[Atsushi SAKAI]

Yushu Yao <yushuyaoyao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Atsushi and Stefan,
> 
> It seems that libvirtd has to run with root, is this true?
Yes

> 
> But why does libvirtd need to run for QEMU? If it's for start/stop/pause vm,
> is Qemu's command line tool not enough?

Please see follows
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00005.html

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Yushu
> 
> 
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> On 9/3/08 6:08 PM, "Stefan de Konink" <skinkie at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> > Atsushi SAKAI schreef:
> >>   You should differenciate Qemu and Xen(zen).
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> >>   For QEMU, libvirtd need to run always.
> >> For Xen,  it does not requrired to run for local machine. and required to run
> >> for remote machine.
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> > Some people still have their hopes that libvirtd will do the same for
> > Xen in the near future :)
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> > Stefan
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