diff --git a/daemon/libvirtd.service.in b/daemon/libvirtd.service.in
index 1616e7a2d0..bbf27dae95 100644
--- a/daemon/libvirtd.service.in
+++ b/daemon/libvirtd.service.in
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 [Unit]
 Description=Virtualization daemon
+Requires=virtlogd.socket
 Before=libvirt-guests.service
 After=network.target
 After=dbus.service
diff --git a/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in b/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
index a264d3ac61..82879941ef 100644
--- a/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
+++ b/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Virtual machine log manager
 Requires=virtlogd.socket
+Before=libvirtd.service
+PartOf=libvirtd.service
 Documentation=man:virtlogd(8)
 Documentation=http://libvirt.org
 
diff --git a/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in b/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
index 724976dc35..efb6504f7a 100644
--- a/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
+++ b/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Virtual machine log manager socket
+Before=libvirtd.service
+PartOf=libvirtd.service
 
 [Socket]
 ListenStream=@localstatedir@/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock