Re: autostart sessiioned vms

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?

what happens if I log out from the user? the vm stays up?