Daniel P. Berrange wrote: [Thu Aug 06 2009, 10:07:26AM EDT]
I guess that should be "service libvirtd restart" ?
(i.e. all reload does is issue a SIGHUP)
Oh, I forgot I was looking at debian. :-) Their start script for libvirtd actually does a restart under the reload. Generalizing on "restart" for the docs would certainly cover all cases...
Ewww! They are separate actions for a reason ! Reload (via SIGHUP) is a much less dangerous operation, than a full stop/start based restart. At this point in time, a full restart should only be required for changes to the daemon/driver config files libvirtd.conf, or qemu.conf. Everything else (guest configs, etc) should just work with a mere SIGHUP. Someone might like to fix 'reload' in Debian's initscripts...
Scratch that, I must have made a typo when I wrote down what I had tried. And then looked at the script this morning when I was not quite awake. I just looked again, and it doesn't do anything funky. Amy