Re: [libvirt] Libvirtd needs to be always running/

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Yushu Yao wrote:

It seems that libvirtd has to run with root, is this true?

To make itself useful it should be root yes.

But why does libvirtd need to run for QEMU? If it's for start/stop/pause vm, is Qemu's command line tool not enough?

I presume it works by keeping reference to the domain, and is not able to manipulate the domain if it does not own it... but this is a guess :) Stefan