libvirtd command examples

libvirtd – libvirtd management daemon

To retrieve the version of libvirtd:

# libvirtd --version

libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.2

 

To start libvirtd, instructing it to daemonize and create a PID file:

# libvirtd -d
# ls -la /var/run/libvirtd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jul 9 02:40 /var/run/libvirtd.pid