Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Leave all child processes running when stopping systemd service

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 14:03 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > > Currently the libvirt.service unit file for systemd does not > specify any kill mode. So systemd kills off every process > inside its cgroup. ie all dnsmasq processes, all virtual > machines. This obviously not what we want. Set KillMode=process > so that it only kills the top level process of libvirtd > > * daemon/libvirtd.service.in: Add KillMode=process I was still looking through this. Try doing: $> systemctl restart libvirtd.service It's killing the existing processes in the cgroup when starting the service. From poking at an strace, this looks like the code that's doing it: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/service.c?id=75c8e3c...