To facilitate upgrades from earlier versions of libvirt which did not use socket activation for libvirtd, we want to allow the libvirtd socket units to be disabled (masked). This can only be supported if we use the warker Wants statement instead of Requires. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/remote/libvirtd.service.in | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in b/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in index 4c5b28b478..82892b4f70 100644 --- a/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in +++ b/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in @@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ Description=Virtualization daemon Requires=virtlogd.socket Requires=virtlockd.socket -Requires=libvirtd.socket -Requires=libvirtd-ro.socket -Requires=libvirtd-admin.socket +# Use Wants instead of Requires so that users +# can disable these three .socket units to revert +# to a traditional non-activation deployment setup +Wants=libvirtd.socket +Wants=libvirtd-ro.socket +Wants=libvirtd-admin.socket Wants=systemd-machined.service Before=libvirt-guests.service After=network.target -- 2.21.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list