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The libvirt service does not contain a way to turn-on remote listening

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From: Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e <at> gmail.com>
To: Guix Bugs <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: The libvirt service does not contain a way to turn-on remote listening
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:09:29 -0600

The shepherd libvirt service contains ways to configure "listening mode" (i.e. listening over TCP) capabilities, but contains no way to actually turn this feature on, despite referencing[1] an unimplemented `listen` option:

> You must set listen for this to have any effect. 

From libvirt's documentation[2]:

> Note: it is also necessary to start the server in listening mode by
> running it with --listen or adding a LIBVIRTD_ARGS="--listen" line to
> /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd.

Our service definition requires the ability to specify that shepherd should start the service with the `--listen` flag.

[1] - https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#index-listen_002dtcp_003f
[2] - https://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_libvirtd_configuration

-- 
Katherine

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