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Daemon to listen for wake on lan packets and start libvirt based VMs

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INTRODUCTION

libvirt-wakeonlan is a daemon which listens for wake on lan packets and starts libvirt based virtual machines.

INSTALLATION

SOURCE INSTALL

Clone the git repo:

git clone git://github.com/simoncadman/libvirt-wakeonlan.git

cd libvirt-wakeonlan/
./configure
make install

Run the daemon

systemctl start libvirt-wakeonlan

CONFIGURATION

libvirt-wakeonlan listens on eth0 by default for Wake-on-lan packets, to change this, there is a configuration file for the libvirt-wakeonlan service ( in /etc/conf.d/ on Gentoo, /etc/sysconfig on Fedora and /etc/default on Debian ), within it is a parameter called "LIBVIRTDWOL_INTERFACE" which specifies the interface used.

DEVELOPING

Before commiting to the git repository you should set up the pre-commit hook, this ensures the version numbers in the scripts are updated:

ln -s ../../pre-commit.py .git/hooks/pre-commit

Copyright

Software and icon are copyright Simon Cadman and licenced under GNU GPL v3 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ).

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