[libvirt] Libvirtd is not started as a service

Weiwei Jia harrynjit at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 21:38:08 UTC 2016


But update libvirt between different versions often cause lots of
problems since some new version add new daemons/features. If there is
auto-config for different versions under different distroes, it will
be better.


Best,
Weiwei Jia

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Weiwei Jia <harrynjit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. This problem has been solved.
>
> Thanks,
> Weiwei Jia
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!




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