[libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

[Yushu Yao]

Thanks Atsushi and Stefan,

It seems that libvirtd has to run with root, is this true?

But why does libvirtd need to run for QEMU? If it's for start/stop/pause vm,
is Qemu's command line tool not enough?

Thanks!

-Yushu



On 9/3/08 6:08 PM, "Stefan de Konink" <skinkie at xs4all.nl> wrote:

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> Atsushi SAKAI schreef:
>>   You should differenciate Qemu and Xen(zen).
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>>   For QEMU, libvirtd need to run always.
>> For Xen,  it does not requrired to run for local machine. and required to run
>> for remote machine.
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> Some people still have their hopes that libvirtd will do the same for
> Xen in the near future :)
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> Stefan
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