When libvirt-guests is configured to start guests on host
boot, it is possible for guests start and read the host
clock before it is synchronized. Services such as
libvirt-guests that require correct time should use the
Special Passive System Unit time-sync.target
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.special.html#time-sync.target
Most of this deals with moving the libvirt-guests.sh script which
does all the work to /usr/libexec, so it can be shared by both
systemd and traditional init. Previously systemd depended on
the script being in /etc/init.d
Required to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789747
Since the move to systemd libvirt-guests doesn't output this progress
information anymore. This patch brings back this feature.
It is helpful to show the admin what the system is waiting for and what
is left of the timeout (e.g. for calibrating the shutdown timing of a ups).
Rewriting the current line with \r doesn't work anymore in the context
of systemd. So always write new lines, but move to 5 second intervals
to avoid flooding the console.
I originally postet this into the Fedora bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843836
Currently gracefully shutting down guest vms on host shutdown does not work on
Fedora 17, the guests are killed hard on system shutdown.
The reason is systemd considers libvirt-guests.service to be stopped when the
system is running:
$ systemctl status libvirt-guests.service
libvirt-guests.service - Suspend Active Libvirt Guests
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-guests.service;
enabled)
Active: deactivating (stop) since Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:47:31 +0200;
2min 48s ago
Process: 1085 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/libvirt-guests start
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Control: 1150 (libvirt-guests)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/libvirt-guests.service
└ control
├ 1150 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/libvirt-guests stop
└ 2257 sleep 1
libvirt-guests.service is defined as type "simple" in systemd (the default).
That means systemd will shut down the service when the start executable is
terminated after starting is done. Systemd will not call stop again on system
shutdown because it thinks it is already stopped.
The solution is to define it as type "oneshot" and set the flag
"RemainAfterExit". Then systemd will consider the service as active after
startup and will call the stop function on host shutdown.
This patch adds support for a systemd init service for libvirtd
and libvirt-guests. The libvirtd.service is *not* written to use
socket activation, since we want libvirtd to start on boot so it
can do guest auto-start.
The libvirt-guests.service is pretty lame, just exec'ing the
original init script for now. Ideally we would factor out the
functionality, into some shared tool.
Instead of
./configure --with-init-script=redhat
You can now do
./configure --with-init-script=systemd
Or better still:
./configure --with-init-script=systemd+redhat
We can also now support install of the upstart init script
* configure.ac: Add systemd, and systemd+redhat options to
--with-init-script option
* daemon/Makefile.am: Install systemd services
* daemon/libvirtd.sysconf: Add note about unused env variable
with systemd
* daemon/libvirtd.service.in: libvirtd systemd service unit
* libvirt.spec.in: Add scripts to installing systemd services
and migrating from legacy init scripts
* tools/Makefile.am: Install systemd services
* tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh: Rename to tools/libvirt-guests.init.in
* tools/libvirt-guests.service.in: systemd service unit
Guido Günther