[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#657120: libvirt-bin: Should bring down virtual networks upon stop when no VM still there

[Olivier Berger]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.9.8-2
Severity: normal

Hi.

When one issues /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin stop, and no VMs are still running, it should bring down the virtual networks.

AFAICT, virbr0 is still there, though.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/345485 for some details on this issue on Ubuntu side.

AFAIU, the conclusion in that LP bug was that nothing should be down WRT networks when VMs are running.

But I think that one could expect that libvirt actually *knows* if VMs are still running, and may then be able to do things if no VM it started are still running.

Is there something that can be done to have libvirt not mess too much with the host when it is no longer needed ?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser             3.113
ii  gettext-base        0.18.1.1-5
ii  libavahi-client3    0.6.30-6
ii  libavahi-common3    0.6.30-6
ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-1.2
ii  libc6               2.13-24
ii  libcap-ng0          0.6.6-1
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.67-2
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
ii  libgnutls26         2.12.16-1
ii  libnl1              1.1-7
ii  libnuma1            2.0.8~rc2-1
ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-8
ii  libpcap0.8          1.2.1-1
ii  libpciaccess0       0.12.902-1
ii  libreadline6        6.2-8
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.25.dfsg1-3
ii  libudev0            175-3
ii  libvirt0            0.9.8-2
ii  libxenstore3.0      4.1.2-2
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-5.1
ii  libyajl1            1.0.12-2
ii  logrotate           3.8.1-1

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils    1.5-2
ii  dmidecode       2.11-4
ii  dnsmasq-base    2.59-4
ii  ebtables        2.0.9.2-2
ii  gawk            1:3.1.8+dfsg-0.1
ii  iproute         20120105-1
ii  iptables        1.4.12.2-1
ii  libxml2-utils   2.7.8.dfsg-5.1
ii  netcat-openbsd  1.89-4
ii  parted          2.3-8
ii  qemu            1.0+dfsg-2
ii  qemu-kvm        1.0+dfsg-3

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
pn  policykit-1  0.104-1
pn  radvd        <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/libvirt-bin changed [not included]
/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml [Errno 13] Permission non accordée: u'/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml'

-- debconf-show failed