I've been having issues with KVM lately where I sometimes put my host into sleep while a guest is still running, which prevents it from waking up properly. This is somewhat expected due to my setup, but I have mistakenly done this more than once and could use a workaround to stop this from happening. So I've been trying to setup a libvirt hook to fork an instance of systemd-inhibit when the start hook is called and keep it running until the shutdown hook is called. This seems to work well when I run the hook script in a normal bash shell, but running it through libvirt simply blocks the starting process until systemd-inhibit quits. Here's the script : LOCK_FILE="/tmp/vfio-lock-$OBJECT" if [ "$OPERATION" == "start" ]; then ( touch "$LOCK_FILE"; systemd-inhibit --what="sleep" \ --who="libvirt" \ --mode="block" \ inotifywait -qq -e delete "$LOCK_FILE" ) & disown $! exit fi if [ "$OPERATION" == "shutdown" ]; then rm "$LOCK_FILE" fi Is there some way to make it so libvirt sees the hook script exiting and carries on with the rest of its guest startup process even after a process fork or would that require changes in the internal hook handling functions? - Nicolas