There's a guy that created a script for he's own purposes. So, just to have an idea: [Unit] Description=Sheepdog QEMU/KVM Block Storage After=syslog.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/ sheep.conf ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sheep --pidfile /var/run/sheep.pid ${SHEEP_OPTS} ${SHEEP_PATH} PIDFile=/var/run/sheep.pid Type=forking [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target sheep.conf have this for example: SHEEP_OPTS="-c local -D -u" SHEEP_PATH="/var/lib/sheepdog" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct