On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 01:56:45PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:54:29AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > The libvirtd daemon has some support for systemd socket activation > > from: > > > > commit 27a7081c2968ca0d7fbd590629b5a5303851f4a3 > > Author: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Tue Jul 15 15:28:53 2014 +0200 > > > > daemon: support passing FDs from the calling process > > > > First FD is the RW unix socket to listen on, second one (if > > applicable) is the RO unix socket. > > > > This was originally intended for use by the libvirt client when doing > > auto-spawning of libvirtd, but we later deleted that client side code > > in > > > > commit be78814ae07f092d9c4e71fd82dd1947aba2f029 > > Author: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu Apr 2 14:41:17 2015 +0200 > > > > virNetSocketNewConnectUNIX: Use flocks when spawning a daemon > > > > We never added systemd socket units before as we need libvirtd to start > > on boot to perform autostart. > > > > It was recently pointed out by Lennart that these two features are not > > mutually exclusive though. Libvirtd can be set to start on boot, and > > also have socket unit files. > > > > The idea is that we start libvirtd on boot, perform autostart, and then > > libvirtd can exit if nothing is running. The socket unit files are then > > there to start it again when a mgmt app connects. > > > > How do you deal with responding to QEMU events, for example proper support for > <on_poweroff>restart</on_poweroff> ? If any QEMU guest is running, libvirtd will keep running. The --timeout option should only let us exit if we have no client apps and no running QEMUs, unless I'm mis-remembering. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
