[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] systemd-related fixes and improvements

[Boris Fiuczynski]

On 10/07/2016 09:31 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 09:12 +0200, Boris Fiuczynski wrote:
>> Daniel, Andrea,
>> have you looked into the change in behaviour caused by patch 4 of this
>> series? When libvirtd is stopped I get all my running domains suspended.
>> Restarting libvirtd now also causes a disruption since all domains are
>> suspended and than resumed.
>> Before the commit of this patch the domains used to remain running
>> without these disruptions and as a user this is what I expect to happen.
>> I propose to revert commit fb2025ede9ecde1aa04ba6e01ce0c82c9e42dc66.
>
> Oh, you're right! Thank you for reporting this issue.
>
> We don't want to revert the change though, merely to
> downgrade the Requires to a Wants.
>
> That way, libvirtd stopping (or restarting) will not
> cause libvirt-guests to stop, but when starting
> libvirt-guests an attempt will still be made to start
> up libvirtd if it's not running already.
>
> I'll have patches on the list shortly.
>
> --
> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
>

Andrea,
there is another "side effect" of the Requires directive.
libvirt-guests gets automatically started when libvirt is updated to 
v2.3.0. This has some rather nasty implications for the end users.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards
    Boris Fiuczynski

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