[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#872573: Stopping libvirtd.service does not properly stop all (dnsmasq) processes

[Tomas Janousek]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 08:07:45AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 08:47:09PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > [...]
> > See, how the dnsmasq processes are still running after stopping the
> > service.
> 
> This is itentional since the networks continue to run. Once you stop the
> network the dnsmasq instance goes away too. Otherwise daemon restarts
> would break VM connectivity.

If the networks continue to run, why are they started again? Is there perhaps
a way to detect that the network is already started and skip starting it
again?

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Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Pivník, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/