# Libvirtd does load automatically on sles15sp7
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859
**Category:** SLES Virtualization
**Created:** [September 9, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859 "2025-09-09T21:49:23Z")
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/1 "2025-09-09T21:49:23Z")
Although KVM is already installed libvirt and libvirt\_client are not loaded.
I saw that they were not installed, so I did it and put it to load automatically with systemctl enable –now libvirtd.service, so I checked an they were running fine.
So I rebooted the server and they were not running, so my questions are:
1- Why this SUSE version SLES15SP7 does not install them when you trigger KVM installation using yast2 virtualization?
2- Why after installing and setting it to enable, they do not start automatically?
By the way is the same behavior for sles15sp7qu1
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/2 "2025-09-29T12:44:42Z")
No ideas?
Is there somebody using KVM with SUSE15SP6 or SP7 and having the same problem that I have?
Why this modules loaded from a SUSE repository cannot start automatically?
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/3 "2025-09-29T12:45:09Z")
20 days, no answers at all
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/4 "2025-09-29T13:36:24Z")
@JOSE_CALIL Did you select “Start virtual machine on host boot up”?
The libvirtd service doesn’t need to be enabled either…
I assume you have looked here [https://documentation.suse.com/en-us/sles/15-SP7/html/SLES-all/book-virtualization.html](https://documentation.suse.com/en-us/sles/15-SP7/html/SLES-all/book-virtualization.html)?
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/5 "2025-09-29T20:22:51Z")
Yes it starts, but I need libvirtd and virtlib-guests (libvirt-client), to make my BACKUP software to do KVM VM hot backups. Otherwise, it will not do backups nor restores
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/6 "2025-09-29T20:24:22Z")
And by the way, thanks for answering me. Anyway, even if you install and enable those demons they will not start at the next boot, I can´t find the reason. There is no posts available about this issue
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/7 "2025-09-29T20:31:25Z")
What I could see is that SUSE SLES iso install bellow 16GB in size works fine, I mean this problem does not exist (SUSE SLES15SP-QU1 is ok, it is about 14GB). After this version, the iso program is about 20GB in size and after this change, the problem appears.
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/8 "2025-09-29T21:01:47Z")
@JOSE_CALIL AFAIK it’s the change in systemd, you would likely need to craft a systemd service for your (I’m assuming virsh) requirements.
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/9 "2025-10-03T14:03:55Z")
Malcom:
Sorry for my delay on answering your proposal, but I had some servers crashed around me and I was very focused trying to solve those problems
Getting back, I am not that expert as you are, from your statement I understood that SYSTEMD has changed (AFAIK is a codename?) and that I need to “craft a systemd service for your (I’m assuming virsh) requirements.”, what you mean with that?
Is there any documentation? Any help? I am not aware of this process.
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/10 "2025-10-03T14:21:57Z")
@JOSE_CALIL I meant changes to how systemd operates with respect to the likes of libvirtd etc.
So what command(s) are run to manually start those services you need?
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/11 "2025-10-03T16:19:06Z")
So far I notice that libvirtd and libvirt-client (that I guess it is libvirt-guests, but it is shown and libvirt-client and libvirt-client-qemu, that is installed and loaded with libvirt-client
kvm5:~ # systemctl status libvirtd.service
○ libvirtd.service - libvirt legacy monolithic daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ○ libvirtd.socket
○ libvirtd-ro.socke
○ libvirtd-admin.socke
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
[https://libvirt.org/](https://libvirt.org/)
kvm5:~ # systemctl status libvirt-guests.service
○ libvirt-guests.service - libvirt guests suspend/resume service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-guests.service; disabled; \>
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:libvirt-guests(8)
[https://libvirt.org/](https://libvirt.org/)
You can see that are enabled but not running, you have to start it mannualy always after a reboot
That makes sens?
Calil
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### Author:  [@JOSE\_CALIL](https://forums.suse.com/u/JOSE_CALIL)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/12 "2025-10-03T16:23:07Z")
So far I notice that libvirtd and libvirt-client (that I guess it is libvirt-guests, but it is shown and libvirt-client and libvirt-client-qemu, that is installed and loaded with libvirt-client
kvm5:~ # systemctl status libvirtd.service
○ libvirtd.service - libvirt legacy monolithic daemon
```
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
```
TriggeredBy: ○ libvirtd.socket
○ libvirtd-ro.socke
○ libvirtd-admin.socke
```
Docs: man:libvirtd(8)
[https://libvirt.org/](https://libvirt.org/)
```
kvm5:~ # systemctl status libvirt-guests.service
○ libvirt-guests.service - libvirt guests suspend/resume service
```
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/libvirt-guests.service; disabled; >
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:libvirt-guests(8)
[https://libvirt.org/](https://libvirt.org/)
```
You can see that are enabled but not running, you have to start it mannualy always after a reboot
That makes sens?
Calil
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### Author:  [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/libvirtd-does-load-automatically-on-sles15sp7/45859/13 "2025-10-03T16:38:04Z")
@JOSE_CALIL some services run then stop because they have done their job? So what to the logs say about those services?
Do you have a `/etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests` file?
I’d suggest a read of the man page `man 8 libvirt-guests` as it has info on resuming guests.