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

[Boris Fiuczynski]

On 10/07/2016 10:19 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> 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
>

Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards
    Boris Fiuczynski

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