To facilitate upgrades from earlier versions of libvirt which did not
use socket activation for libvirtd, we want to allow the libvirtd socket
units to be disabled (masked). This can only be supported if we use the
warker Wants statement instead of Requires.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
---
src/remote/libvirtd.service.in | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in b/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in
index 4c5b28b478..82892b4f70 100644
--- a/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in
+++ b/src/remote/libvirtd.service.in
@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
Description=Virtualization daemon
Requires=virtlogd.socket
Requires=virtlockd.socket
-Requires=libvirtd.socket
-Requires=libvirtd-ro.socket
-Requires=libvirtd-admin.socket
+# Use Wants instead of Requires so that users
+# can disable these three .socket units to revert
+# to a traditional non-activation deployment setup
+Wants=libvirtd.socket
+Wants=libvirtd-ro.socket
+Wants=libvirtd-admin.socket
Wants=systemd-machined.service
Before=libvirt-guests.service
After=network.target
--
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