Thanks Andrea, Yes I confirm to you that I have enabled libvirt as well. I don't see any error right now but I have to investigate a little bit more. My guests are in autostart in virsh so everything is fine on this, the only issue I got is in case of shutdown. The strange thing is that sometimes libvirt-guests is up and running sometimes failed... just for info this is my libvirt-guests.service (by default) [Unit] Description=Suspend Active Libvirt Guests After=network.target libvirtd.service time-sync.target Documentation=man:libvirtd(8) Documentation=http://libvirt.org [Service] EnvironmentFile=-/etc/conf.d/libvirt-guests # Hack just call traditional service until we factor # out the code ExecStart=/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt-guests.sh start ExecStop=/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt-guests.sh stop Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes StandardOutput=journal+console TimeoutStopSec=0 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target On 08/11/2016 06:36 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
That's very weird. Apparently, libvirtd is not running by the time libvirt-guests is started, despite the fact that the unit file for the former contains
Before=libvirt-guests.service
and the one for the latter contains
After=libvirtd.service
That should be more than enough to ensure the proper ordering is followed when starting / stopping the services.
Is the libvirtd service enabled at all? Are there any startup errors / warnings? Does the libvirt-guests service actually bring up the guests that were running before shutdown when you start it a second time?