Some time ago, _libvirt_ was refactored to use separate daemons and
sockets for each of its responsibilities, and the original "monolithic"
`libvirtd` was made obsolete. The Fedora packages have more recently
been adjusted to favor this new approach, and now default to omitting
the monolithic daemon entirely (when `install_weak_deps` is disabled).
One interesting packaging snafu, though, is that without the weak
dependencies, there is _no_ way for clients to connect by default.
Clients run `which virt-ssh-helper` to see if it is installed, which it
is, but `which` is not. They then fall back to running `nc`, which is
_also_ not installed. So even though the tools they actually need are
present, their logic for detecting this is broken. As such, we need to
explicitly install `which` to satisfy them.
*libvirt*'s native autostart functionality does not work well for
machines that migrate between hosts. Machines lose their auto-start
flag when they are migrated, and the flag is not restored if they are
migrated back. This makes the feature pretty useless for us.
To work around this limitation, I've added a script that is run during
boot that will start the machines listed in `/etc/vm-autostart`, if they
exist. That file can also insert a delay between starting two machines,
which may be useful to allow services to fully start on one machine
before starting another that may depend on them.
Dustin