[libvirt] [PATCH] libvirt-guests: Weaken dependency on libvirtd

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Fri Oct 7 08:19:53 UTC 2016


The Requires relationship is very strong, in that it prevents
a unit from running unless all the units it Requires are
running as well.

This turns out to be a problem because we want to be able to
restart libvirtd at any time without having libvirt-guests
suspend or shutdown running guests.

Turn the Requires relationship into a Wants relationship:
this way starting libvirt-guests will cause systemd to (attempt
to) start libvirtd as well, but stopping or restarting libvirtd
will not alter libvirt-guests' running state.
---
 tools/libvirt-guests.service.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/libvirt-guests.service.in b/tools/libvirt-guests.service.in
index b4f54f2..02e6747 100644
--- a/tools/libvirt-guests.service.in
+++ b/tools/libvirt-guests.service.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests
-Requires=libvirtd.service
+Wants=libvirtd.service
 After=network.target
 After=time-sync.target
 After=libvirtd.service
-- 
2.7.4




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