Thanks for the reply :) The libvirt-guests.service was the very first thing I had tried. It, however, did absolutely nothing and I believe it to be broken in arch linux. I have given up on trying to get a shutdown/reboot script to run for now.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:40:03PM -0400, Alexander Groleau wrote: > > Hello systemd users, > > > > I have been trying desperately for weeks to get my simple shutdown script > > for a Libvirt guest to run before libvirtd is shut down, without success. > > Essentially, I need the libvirt-windows.sh script to run before the > > libvirtd service is terminated (which occurs right after systemd-logind > > outputs its reboot message). How can I get my script into this initial > > section of daemon shutdowns, at the top? > > Any reason you've created your own shutdown script instead of using the > libvirt-guests.service script that libvirt includes ? To get the ordering > right, we have a number of rules: > > - libvirtd.service contains "Before=libvirt-guests.service" > - libvirt-guests.service contains "After=libvirtd.service" > - The guest scope unit contain "After=libvirtd.service" and > "Before=libvirt-guests.service" > > It was the two rules aginst the .scope units that we found to be the key > part to making shutdown work, whereby guests get stopped gracefully before > the libvirtd daemon is stopped. > > The .scope units do not have any file on disk, they are generated on the > fly as libvirt talks to systemd-machined, so you've no way to alter them > to work with your custom shutdown script. Thus if you are not using the > standard libvirt-guests.service, then you should at least use the name > "libvirt-guests.service" for your own custom service. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ > :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org > :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc > :| >
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