Re: autostart sessiioned vms

Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 10:34 AM From: "Michal Prívozník" <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "daggs" <daggs(a)gmx.com&gt; Cc: users(a)lists.libvirt.org Subject: Re: autostart sessiioned vms On 8/26/24 19:33, daggs wrote: > Greetings Michal, > >> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2024 at 11:52 AM >> From: "Michal Prívozník" <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; >> To: "daggs" <daggs(a)gmx.com&gt;, users(a)lists.libvirt.org >> Subject: Re: autostart sessiioned vms >> >> On 8/23/24 14:23, daggs via Users wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I'm running sessioned vms which I want to start them up at boot. >>> I've marked a vm inside a use as autostart, added libvirtd to the boot order and rebooted but it didn't started the vm. >>> I tried adding libvirt-guests to bott services but my sessioned vm is still not autostarting. >>> what is the proper way to do so? >> >> There are two modes of operation: >> >> 1) qemu:///system >> 2) qemu:///session >> >> The former runs a system-wide VMs, the latter runs per-user VMs. The >> former runs libvirtd under root, the latter runs libvirtd under given >> user. If you enable libvirtd at startup, it's very likely that you're >> starting the system-wide instance (i.e. qemu:///system). >> >> Usually, per-user daemons (like dbus, pipewire) are started after user >> logs in. That's where you want to place libvirtd start too. I'm not sure >> what init system you're using, but perhaps it has a way to start a >> per-user service - consult documentation to your init system. >> >> BTW: user daemon is started automatically upon connection opening. For >> instance, running the following starts a session daemon: >> >> $ virsh uri >> >> Oh, and if you're using autostart for other objects than domains, then >> you need to start corresponding daemons. >> >> Michal >> >> > > I'm using openrc. > so based on the above, if I login as the user where the vm is defined, it should start it? If you configure your session manager then yes. For instance, I'm using KDE and I can configure what files should be executed after login.

> what happens if I log out from the user? the vm stays up? Yes, the daemon won't die unless there's no VM running and no client connected for 120 seconds (by default).