virtstoraged
libvirt storage pool management daemon
- Manual section:
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- Manual group:
Virtualization Support
SYNOPSIS¶
virtstoraged [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION¶
The virtstoraged program is a server side daemon component of the libvirt virtualization management system.
It is one of a collection of modular daemons that replace functionality previously provided by the monolithic libvirtd daemon.
This daemon runs on virtualization hosts to provide management for storage pools.
The virtstoraged daemon only listens for requests on a local Unix domain socket. Remote access via TLS/TCP and backwards compatibility with legacy clients expecting libvirtd is provided by the virtproxyd daemon.
Restarting virtstoraged does not interrupt running guests. Guests continue to operate and changes in their state will generally be picked up automatically during startup. None the less it is recommended to avoid restarting with running guests whenever practical.
DAEMON STARTUP MODES¶
The virtstoraged daemon is capable of starting in two modes.
Socket activation mode¶
On hosts with systemd it is started in socket activation mode and it will rely on systemd to create and listen on the UNIX sockets and pass them as pre-opened file descriptors. In this mode most of the socket related config options in /etc/libvirt/virtstoraged.conf will no longer have any effect.
Traditional service mode¶
On hosts without systemd, it will create and listen on UNIX sockets itself.
OPTIONS¶
-h, --help
Display command line help usage then exit.
-d, --daemon
Run as a daemon & write PID file.
-f, --config *FILE*
Use this configuration file, overriding the default value.
-p, --pid-file *FILE*
Use this name for the PID file, overriding the default value.
-t, --timeout *SECONDS*
Exit after timeout period (in seconds), provided there are no client connections.
-v, --verbose
Enable output of v