Re: [libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

2008-09-04 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Yushu Yao wrote: It seems that libvirtd has to run with root, is this true? To make itself useful it should be root yes. 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? I presume it works by keeping

Re: [libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

2008-09-03 Thread Atsushi SAKAI
Hi, Yao You should differenciate Qemu and Xen(zen). 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. Thanks Atsushi SAKAI Yushu Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A newbie question:

Re: [libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

2008-09-03 Thread 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

2008-09-03 Thread Atsushi SAKAI
Yushu Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Atsushi and Stefan, It seems that libvirtd has to run with root, is this true? Yes 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? Please see follows