[libvirt] Libvirtd is not started as a service

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Weiwei Jia <harrynjit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I download libvirt 2.5.0 source codes and install them as following steps.
>
> $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>
>
> However, the libvirtd is not started as a service daemon.
>
> $ initctl stop libvirt-bin
> initctl: Unknown job: libvirt-bin
>
> Is libvirtd started as a service daemon by default after 'make
> install'? Or I need to start it manually. Is there any doc to make
> libvirtd as a service daemon, which is located at
> '/etc/init.d/libvirtd' for debian?
>
> My distro version is
>
>> lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: LinuxMint
> Description: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
> Release: 17.2
> Codename: rafaela
>
> The same as Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.
>
> Thanks,
> Weiwei Jia
>

"libvirt-bin" is a Debian-ism (which I think is finally getting
dropped soon). When building from source, the upstream name "libvirtd"
is used instead. Try that.



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