Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/hotplug: xendomains.service conflicts with libvirt

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/10/15 10:29, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:22:45AM +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> xendomains will manage guests behind libvirts back:
>> - libvirt starts a guest
>> - that guest can be "managed" by libvirt and xl at the same time
>> - when xendomains runs on shutdown it will save the guest using xl
>>   libvirt does not know about this
>> - when xendomains runs on boot it will restore the saved guest using xl
>>   libvirt does not know about this, it will just fail to manage the
>>   restored guest
>>
>> To prevent xendomains from interfering with libvirt add a Conflicts= to
>> xendomains.service. It will cause libvirt to be stopped if xendomains is
>> started manually with 'systemctl start'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> This never went out via git send-email, sorry about this.
>>
>>
>>  tools/hotplug/Linux/systemd/xendomains.service.in | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/hotplug/Linux/systemd/xendomains.service.in 
>> b/tools/hotplug/Linux/systemd/xendomains.service.in
>> index 66e2065..3875de1 100644
>> --- a/tools/hotplug/Linux/systemd/xendomains.service.in
>> +++ b/tools/hotplug/Linux/systemd/xendomains.service.in
>> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Requires=proc-xen.mount xenstored.service
>>  After=proc-xen.mount xenstored.service xenconsoled.service 
>> xen-init-dom0.service
>>  After=network-online.target
>>  After=remote-fs.target
>> +Conflicts=libvirt.service
> Is there a canonical source for the name of service? We should reference
> that in commit message.
>
> My quick search on the Internet presents libvirtd.service as well. I
> fear the name of the service is up to distros, which means we shouldn't
> put one in xendomains.service.

If it is a service file provided by libvirt upstream, we can probably
get away with naming it explicitly.

If each distro write their own service files for libvirt, we probably can't.

~Andrew

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