Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] src: Document autostart for session demon

The autostart under session daemon might not behave as you'd expect it to behave. This patch is inspired by latest libvirt-users discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2018-December/msg00047.html Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/libvirt-domain.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/libvirt-domain.c b/src/libvirt-domain.c index d49d7f869f..75c9014c0e 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-domain.c +++ b/src/libvirt-domain.c @@ -6693,6 +6693,11 @@ virDomainCreateWithFiles(virDomainPtr domain, unsigned int nfiles, * configured to be automatically started when the host * machine boots. * + * Please note that this might result in unexpected behaviour if + * used for some session URIs. Since the session daemon is started + * with --timeout it comes and goes and as it does so it + * autostarts domains which might have been shut off recently. + * * Returns -1 in case of error, 0 in case of success */ int