<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the reply :) The libvirt-guests.service was the very first thing I had tried. It, however, did absolutely nothing and I believe it to be broken in arch linux. I have given up on trying to get a shutdown/reboot script to run for now.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com" target="_blank">berrange@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:40:03PM -0400, Alexander Groleau wrote: > Hello systemd users, > > I have been trying desperately for weeks to get my simple shutdown script > for a Libvirt guest to run before libvirtd is shut down, without success. > Essentially, I need the libvirt-windows.sh script to run before the > libvirtd service is terminated (which occurs right after systemd-logind > outputs its reboot message). How can I get my script into this initial > section of daemon shutdowns, at the top? Any reason you've created your own shutdown script instead of using the libvirt-guests.service script that libvirt includes ? To get the ordering right, we have a number of rules: - libvirtd.service contains "Before=libvirt-guests.service" - libvirt-guests.service contains "After=libvirtd.service" - The guest scope unit contain "After=libvirtd.service" and "Before=libvirt-guests.service" It was the two rules aginst the .scope units that we found to be the key part to making shutdown work, whereby guests get stopped gracefully before the libvirtd daemon is stopped. The .scope units do not have any file on disk, they are generated on the fly as libvirt talks to systemd-machined, so you've no way to alter them to work with your custom shutdown script. Thus if you are not using the standard libvirt-guests.service, then you should at least use the name "libvirt-guests.service" for your own custom service. Regards, Daniel -- |: <a href="http://berrange.com" target="_blank">http://berrange.com</a> -o- <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/</a> :| |: <a href="http://libvirt.org" target="_blank">http://libvirt.org</a> -o- <a href="http://virt-manager.org" target="_blank">http://virt-manager.org</a> :| |: <a href="http://autobuild.org" target="_blank">http://autobuild.org</a> -o- <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/</a> :| |: <a href="http://entangle-photo.org" target="_blank">http://entangle-photo.org</a> -o- <a href="http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc" target="_blank">http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc</a> :| </blockquote></div> </div>