On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 02:04:09AM -0500, Alex Jia wrote: I think this is a safety issue - if someone is deploying libvirt in an scenario where they want locking, then we must be very careful not to accidentally run without locking. So if someone accidentally mis-configures one of their libvirtd instances to not have any host_id parameter, I felt the only safe thing todo was to exit. An alternative would be to allow libvirtd to start, but then make sure it refuses to start any guests. I'm happy to take patches for the latter if someone wants to... Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|